Ebook {Epub PDF} The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder

The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack begins with the great nineteenth century explorer and linguist Richard Francis Burton set to debate fellow explorer John Hanning Speke -- and learning that Speke has been shot. The fact that it is , not -- the year the debate was actually scheduled, and when Speke died -- is only the first of many indications that the world of this novel isn't quite the one we're Author: Mark Hodder. Halfway through The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, there's a reveal so gloriously over the top that you really have no choice but to roll with it. Were it not for the combination of creative fearlessness and high entertainment value Hodder brings to bear all throughout this alternate-history steampunk extravaganza, you might be justified in wondering if he's simply as mad as much of his cast.  · The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack is the first book in a steampunk series called “Burton Swinburne”. This was a crazy, fun book. This was a crazy, fun book. It’s kinda sorta set in the Victorian era and features many historical figures who are misused to serve the author’s evil purposes/5.

A non-spoiler review of this wonderful book, the first in this crazy, witty series:) Let me know what you think about this book down below and if you plan o. Pouncing on the steampunk zeitgeist, Mark Hodder's The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack takes the clockwork aesthetic and runs with it—as fast and hard as it can. Victorian England, steam horses, top hats and walking sticks, brass hovercrafts, Richard Burton (a la a Sherlock Holmes), the paranormal, biological tinkering, cursing parrots, and a mystery involving a spring-loaded. www.doorway.ru: The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack () by Hodder, Mark and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.

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