Published: April 10, 2012
Words: 36,975 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476265087

Short description

The Bartleby and James Adventures steampunk mystery series follows the cases of consulting detectives Anton Bartleby and James Wainwright through an alternate Victorian history. As the world edges inexorably towards a World War that few can even begin to anticipate, brave men and women must contend with airship pirates, clockwork assassins, galvanic monsters, and anarchist madmen.

Extended description

The Bartleby and James Adventures steampunk mystery series follows the cases of consulting detectives Anton Bartleby and James Wainwright through an alternate Victorian history. As the world edges inexorably towards a World War that few can even begin to anticipate, brave men and women must contend with airship pirates, clockwork assassins, galvanic monsters, and anarchist madmen.

This 36,000 word collection includes the following novelettes:

AND THEY CALLED HER SPIDER (Read more) The Bartleby and James Adventures steampunk mystery series follows the cases of consulting detectives Anton Bartleby and James Wainwright through an alternate Victorian history. As the world edges inexorably towards a World War that few can even begin to anticipate, brave men and women must contend with airship pirates, clockwork assassins, galvanic monsters, and anarchist madmen.

This 36,000 word collection includes the following novelettes:

AND THEY CALLED HER SPIDER
Steampunk London is in the grip of an unstoppable assassin known only as the Spider, and consulting detectives James Wainwright and Alton Bartleby have been commissioned to catch her. Can the surly inventor and savvy gentleman track her down and stop her string of murders, or will Queen Victoria be her next victim?

MAIDEN VOYAGE OF THE RIO GRANDE
Brilliant but socially-awkward inventor and engineer James Wainwright has been accused of murder most foul, and only his savvy partner Alton Bartleby can clear his name. The clock is ticking, though, as the true murderer’s sabotage threatens to crash the world’s largest airship into the teaming streets of London below.

ON THE TRAIL OF THE SCISSORMAN
Consulting detectives Alton Bartleby and James Wainwright have been hired to stop the Scissorman, a nightmarish serial killer. Can they track him down despite obstruction from Scotland Yard, or will the vicious killer turn more of London’s children into orphans?

A MATTER OF SPIRIT
Inventive genius James Wainwright has been retained to advocate for Bryce, an old friend, a con-man accused of kidnapping his partner, who maintains that she was spirited away by the shades of the dead. James has little use for the fancies of spiritualism, but can he put his prejudices aside and clear Bryce’s name, or will his old friend go to the gallows?
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Tags

murder, mystery, anthology, occult, serial killer, detectives, steampunk, collection, london, spiritualism, airships, bundle, clockpunk, bartleby and james, steampunk mystery, retropunk

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Review by: Ricardo Jasso Moedano on Dec. 12, 2012 :
A rather stiff price for an ebook that's just about 36,000 words long, was my first thought, yet it took Michael Coorlim only a few lines to hook me due to his eloquent while not overly florid style (reminiscent of the authors that lived in the same age in which these tales are set), hence no sooner did I reach the end of the free sample of the first tale herein contained ("And they called her spider"), than I bought this collection where the four stories are equally marvellous since they're swift, intriguing and ingenious, plus there is a pertinent social commentary that drives each of them. A brilliant work indeed!
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

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