The Affinity Bridge by George Mann6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Sir Maurice Newbury and his assistant Veronica Hobbes investigate an airship crash in Victorian London. ![]() So begins an adventure quite unlike any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the first in the series of "Newbury & Hobbes" investigations. Meanwhile, Scotland Yard is baffled by a spate of grisly murders and a terrifying plague is ravaging the slums of the city. When an airship crashes in mysterious circumstances, Sir Maurice and his recently appointed assistant Miss Veronica Hobbes are called in to investigate. ![]() For this is also a world where ghostly policemen haunt the fog-laden alleyways of Whitechapel, where cadavers can rise from the dead and where Sir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, works tirelessly to protect the Empire from her foes. ![]() Airships soar in the skies over the city, whilst ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen and journalists.īut beneath this shiny veneer of progress lurks a sinister side. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by new inventions. Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. ![]()
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