Synopses & Reviews
Sir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, imagines life will be a little quieter after his dual success in solving The Affinity Bridge affair. But he hasnt banked on the reemergence of his villainous predecessor, Knox, who is hellbent on achieving immortality, and seems to be pursued by a secret agent who isnt quite as he seems….
The whole affair is so baffling that Newbury is reluctant to take time away from it to attend to the mysterious murders in the wake of the unveiling of an Egyptian mummy, let alone his partner Veronicas apparent obsession with tracking the growing pool of young women who have disappeared after being used as props in a magicians stage act. But its all part of a days work when your boss is the queen of England.
So begins a thrilling steampunk mystery, the second in the series of Newbury & Hobbes investigations, and a grand adventure quite unlike any other.
Review
“Manns imagination has clearly run wild in this quirky and well realized version of the world, and this is no bad thing. [
The Affinity Bridge is] fun, its exciting, and Mann has a very agreeable hand thats easy to appreciate. He has a sharp talent for writing and a surplus of enthusiasm for the genre.”
—SciFiNow
“Tremendous fun.... Mann writes great chase scenes! [The Affinity Bridge] marks George Mann as a writer of enormous promise.”
—SFRevu
“Hugely entertaining.”
—SFSignal
“An enormous pile of awesome”
—Chris Roberson, World Fantasy Award finalist
Review
“ A wonderful penny-dreadful. Its an unashamed galloping romp through the ins and outs of the Victorian metropolis and the lurid generic conventions of adventure fiction. All the way through I felt like George Mann was having a whale of a time with this.”
—Paul Magrs, author of several Doctor Who novels and a Carnegie Medal finalist, on The Osiris Ritual
“ Newbury and Hobbes make a charming pair, and their investigative adventures are a great deal of fun. Manns reimagined Victorian era is a fabulous place, and the mix of pea-soup fog, zombies, and clockwork automata makes for an excellent detective story. Let us hope to see more of Hobbes and Newbury.”
—Booklist on The Affinity Bridge
“ [An] intriguingly bizarre version of 1901 L ondon…a strong addition to the ‘steampunk subgenre and one that creates a lively alternative world.”
—Library Journal on The Affinity Bridge
Synopsis
A steampunk mystery adventure featuring immortality, artifacts, and intrepid sleuths Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes
Sir Maurice Newbury, Gentleman Investigator for the Crown, imagines life will be a little quieter after his dual successes solving The Affinity Bridge affair. But he hasnt banked on his villainous predecessor, Knox, who is hell-bent on achieving immortality, not to mention a secret agent who isnt quite what he seems....
So continues an adventure quite unlike any other, a thrilling steampunk mystery and the second in the series of Newbury & Hobbes investigations.
Synopsis
The author of "The Affinity Bridge" delivers a steampunk mystery adventure featuring immortality, artifacts, and intrepid sleuths Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes.
About the Author
GEORGE MANN is the head of publishing at the UK-based Games Workshop. He edited The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction anthology series and is the author of a number of fiction and nonfiction books, including The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. The first of the Newbury and Hobbes investigations, The Affinity Bridge, was his first novel.