the strange affair of spring heeled jack by mark hodder

Returning from his failed expedition to find the source of the Nile, explorer, linguist, scholar and swordsman Sir Richard Francis Burton finds himself sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, employs him as 'King's Spy'. Mark Hodder Books Overview The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack Sir Richard Francis Burton explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman his reputation tarnished his career in tatters his former partner missing and probably dead. Dick Award-winning novel THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK and its seven sequels, and of the first officially sanctioned Sexton Blake novel to have been published in nearly half a century. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with propaganda demanding a society based on beauty and creativity while The Rakes push the boundaries of human behaviour to the limits with magic, sexuality, drugs and anarchy. Mark Hodder is the author of the Philip K. The two men are sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when Lord Palmerston commissions Burton to investigate assaults on young women committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack, and to find out why werewolves are terrorizing London's East End.Summary: It is 1861, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Dick Award 2010-and its sequel, The Curious Case of the Clockwork. The Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack is a steampunk novel by British writer Mark Hodder, the first novel in the Burton & Swinburne series it won the. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! They stand at a crossroads in their lives and are caught in the epicenter of an empire torn by conflicting forces: Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier, and dirtier technological wonders Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labor Libertines oppose repressive laws and demand a society based on beauty and creativity while the Rakes push the boundaries of human behavior to the limits with magic, drugs, and anarchy. Mark Hodder is the author of The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack-winner of the Philip K.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman his reputation tarnished his career in tatters his former partner missing and probably dead. 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 strange affair of spring heeled jack by mark hodder