The bullet-catcher's daughter
Subtitle: being volume one of the fall of the gas-lit empire
By: Rod Duncan
Series: Fall of the gas-lit empire -- 1
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780857665300
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Conspiracies; Luddites; Women private investigators; Fiction; False personation; Inventions; Missing persons; History
Description: "Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life--as herself and as her brother, a private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus. But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better ..."--Page 4 of cover.