The Custodian of Marvels

Authors: Duncan, Rod
Publisher: Watkins Media
BISAC/Subject: FIC022060, FIC028060, FIC040000
ISBN: 9780857665034, Related ISBNs: 0857665022, 0857665030, 9780857665027, 9780857665034
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 368,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Join undercover and patriarchy-bucking PI Elizabeth Baranabus on a third and final mystery adventure through a steampunk-flavored Victorian London
 
You’d have to be mad to steal from the feared International Patent Office. But that’s what Elizabeth Barnabus is about to try. A one-time enemy from the circus has persuaded her to attempt a heist that will be the ultimate conjuring trick.

Hidden in the vaults of the Patent Court in London lie secrets that could shake the very pillars of the Gas-Lit Empire. All that stands in Elizabeth’s way are the agents of the Patent Office, a Duke’s private army and the mysterious Custodian of Marvels.

Rod Duncan returns with the climactic volume of The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire, the breathtaking alternate history series that began with the Philip K. Dick Award-nominated The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter.
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