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The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes

Name: The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes
Rating: 3.78 (522 reviews)
Author: George Mann

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A collection of short stories detailing the supernatural steampunk adventures of detective duo, Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes in dark and dangerous Victorian London. Along with Chief Inspector Bainbridge, Newbury & Hobbes will face plague revenants, murderous peers, mechanical beasts, tentacled leviathans, reanimated pygmies, and an encounter with Sherlock Holmes.

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"Introduction: The 19th Century Roots of Steampunk" by Jess Nevins

"Benediction: Excerpt from The Warlord of the Air" by Michael Moorcock
"Lord Kelvin's Machine" by James P. Blaylock
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"The Selene Gardening Society" by Molly Brown
"Seventy-Two Letters" by Ted Chiang
"The Martian Agent, A Planetary Romance" by Michael Chabon
"Victoria" by Paul Di Filippo
"Reflected Light" by Rachel E. Pollock
"Minutes of the Last Meeting" by Stepan Chapman
"Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of Tribes of the Pacific Coast" by Neal Stephenson
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“The Cast Iron Kid” by Andrew Knighton
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“The Strange Case of Mr. Salad Monday” by Geoffery D. Falksen
“At the Intersection of Technology and Romance” by Jake von Slatt
“The Future of Steampunk: A Roundtable Interview” by Jeff and Ann VanderMeer
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“The Unbecoming of Virgil Smythe” by Ramsey Shehadeh
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“The Unblinking Eye” by Stephen Baxter
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Veronica and Newbury’s dear friend Bainbridge, the Chief Investigator at Scotland Yard, tries to cover for him as much as possible, but when the body of a well known criminal turns up, Bainbridge and Veronica track Newbury down in an opium den and drag him out to help them with the case. The body is clearly, irrefutably, that of the man in question, but shortly after his body is brought to the morgue, a crime is discovered that bears all the dead man’s hallmarks. Bainbridge and Veronica fear someone is committing copycat crimes, but Newbury is not sure. Somehow, the details are too perfect for it to be the work of a copycat. But how can a dead man commit a crime?

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Burton & Swinburne return in a new series!

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