Mark Hodder: Burton and Swinburne in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

Burton and Swinburne in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack


Description

It is 1861, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. 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. 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'. His first mission: to investigate the sexual assaults committed by a weird apparition known as Spring Heeled Jack; to find out why chimney sweeps are being kidnapped by half-man, half-dog creatures; and to discover the whereabouts of his badly injured former friend, John Hanning Speke. Accompanied by the diminutive and pain-loving poet, Algernon Swinburne, Burton's investigations lead him back to one of the defining events of the age: the brutal assassination of Queen Victoria in 1840; and the terrifying possibility that the world he inhabits shouldn't exist at all.

Fans of Jill Mansell, Debbie Macomber, Nora Roberts and Marie Force will fall head over heels for the new Cedar Ridge series from New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis, featuring her trademark gift for humour, warmth and romance. If you'd been given a second chance at life, what's the first thing you would do? Now that artist Bailey is finally healthy for Looking Good Dead download PDF the first time in forever, she's living life to the full. First on her wishlist is skiing in the Rockies - at least it will be if she can get down the mountain in one piece...Luckily, a ski patrolling Prince Charming comes to Bailey's aid. Learning that her mysterious rescuer, Hudson Kincaid, is also the subject of the mural she's been commissioned to paint in Cedar Ridge, Bailey is intrigued. As she uncovers the real man behind Hudson's strong, silent facade, Bailey begins to realise that the life of adventure she has always dreamed of could be closer to home than she ever imagined. Want more warm, funny romance? Don't miss the first Cedar Ridge novel, Second Chance Summer, visit spellbinding Lucky Harbor or experience some Animal Magnetism in Sunshine, Idaho in Jill's other unforgettable series.


____________________________
Author: Mark Hodder
Number of Pages: 512 pages
Published Date: 01 Apr 2010
Publisher: Snowbooks Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781906727208
Download Link: Click Here
____________________________

Tags:

download torrent, book review, facebook, iPhone, paperback,Burton and Swinburne in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack for PC,Mark Hodder read online,iPad, epub download, download pdf, rarfree ebook, kindle, free pdf, download book, ebook pdf, iOS, download ebook,download pdf Burton and Swinburne in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder iPhone, download epub, ebook, fb2, pocket, for mac, for PC, Read online, mobi, download torrent, zip,

http://www.blogster.com/azalranseser/free-guy-martin-my-autobiography-download-pdf
http://ixthygamed.mihanblog.com/post/33
http://mihanddesse.mihanblog.com/post/36