The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

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Prometheus Books, Sep 15, 2010 - Fiction - 373 pages
London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age, and the terrifying possibility that the world they inhabit shouldn't exist at all!

About the author (2010)

Mark Hodder is the author of The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack-winner of the Philip K. Dick Award 2010-and its sequel, The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man. He's the creator and caretaker of the Blakiana website (http://www.sextonblake.co.uk), which he designed to celebrate, record, and revive Sexton Blake, the most written-about fictional detective in English publishing history. A former BBC writer, editor, journalist, and Web producer, Mark has worked in all the new and traditional medias and was based in London for most of his working life until 2008, when he relocated to Valencia in Spain to de-stress and write novels. He has a degree in cultural studies and loves British history (1850 to 1950, in particular), good food, cutting-edge gadgets, cult TV (ITC forever!), Tom Waits, and a vast assortment of oddities.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack
Volume 1 of A Burton & Swinburne Adventure
AuthorMark Hodder
Editionunabridged
PublisherPrometheus Books, 2010
ISBN1616142901, 9781616142902
Length373 pages
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Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Science Fiction / Steampunk
Fiction / Science Fiction / Time Travel
  
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