Death in the Age of Steam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death in the Age of Steam write by Mel Bradshaw. This book was released on 2004-03-01. Death in the Age of Steam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2004 ForeWord Book of the Year Award Toronto in 1856 is industrializing with little time for scruple or sentiment. When Reform politician William Sheridan dies suddenly and his daughter Theresa vanishes, only one man persists in asking questions. A former suitor of Theresa’s, bank cashier Isaac Harris has never managed to forget her, despite her marriage to another man. Thrust into the role of amateur detective, he must now struggle with the demands of his job and the shortcomings of the fledgling city police. He also faces the hostility of Theresa’s powerful husband, a steamboat and railway magnate. Harris’s search takes a grisly turn when, in a valley outside of town, he finds human remains decked in traces of Theresa’s finery. If she is dead, who is responsible? And who cares to find out, apart from the man who wooed her too timidly and now would do anything to make up for it? Death in the Age of Steam whirls the reader through a richly realized Victorian landscape, from Niagara Falls to Montreal and north as far as the shores of Lake Superior. It’s a world at once near and exotic, a world of noise and smoke and churning pistons, but a world still very familiar to denizens of the 21st century.
Death in the Age of Steam A Mystery
Death in the Age of Steam A Mystery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death in the Age of Steam A Mystery write by . This book was released on 2004. Death in the Age of Steam A Mystery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2004 ForeWord Book of the Year Award Toronto in 1856 is industrializing with little time for scruple or sentiment. When Reform politician William Sheridan dies suddenly and his daughter Theresa vanishes, only one man persists in asking questions. A former suitor of Theresa’s, bank cashier Isaac Harris has never managed to forget her, despite her marriage to another man. Thrust into the role of amateur detective, he must now struggle with the demands of his job and the shortcomings of the fledgling city police. He also faces the hostility of Theresa’s powerful husband, a steamboat and railway magnate. Harris’s search takes a grisly turn when, in a valley outside of town, he finds human remains decked in traces of Theresa’s finery. If she is dead, who is responsible? And who cares to find out, apart from the man who wooed her too timidly and now would do anything to make up for it? Death in the Age of Steam whirls the reader through a richly realized Victorian landscape, from Niagara Falls to Montreal and north as far as the shores of Lake Superior. It’s a world at once near and exotic, a world of noise and smoke and churning pistons, but a world still very familiar to denizens of the 21st century.
Death in the Age of Steam
Death in the Age of Steam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death in the Age of Steam write by Jess Faraday. This book was released on 2019-11-15. Death in the Age of Steam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jess Faraday, May 2019: Steampunk writing combines imaginative technological tinkering with a 19th century aesthetic. Cheaply done, that means slap some gears on it, call your protagonist 'Lord Crankshaft' or 'Lady Windlass, ' and get it out the door. But we at Elm Books wanted to dig deeper. The 19th century was a time of exciting scientific developments: steam power, electricity, refrigeration, and so much more that we take for granted today, but that seemed like witchcraft at the time. But it was also a time of great social inequality and ruthless colonial expansion. It was not the best time, for example, to be female, or poor. And it was a terrible time to be an original inhabitant of a colonized land. And the steampunk genre, like every genre, could do better in representing these stories. This anthology brings you some of the stories that go beyond the traditional tropes. Within these pages, you will find lady sharpshooters and dominatrix detectives. You'll encounter vampire forensics, sleuthing Rabbis, and ancient East Asian vendettas exploding onto the streets of East London. And in one spectacular story, one man uncovers a corporate conspiracy to steal the very power of the sun. Perhaps we should have called this anthology Death in the Age of Steam and Sun.
Paul Shenstone Mysteries 2-Book Bundle
Paul Shenstone Mysteries 2-Book Bundle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paul Shenstone Mysteries 2-Book Bundle write by Mel Bradshaw. This book was released on 2013-05-13. Paul Shenstone Mysteries 2-Book Bundle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This double edition of the Paul Shenstone Mystery series presents Mel Bradshaw's original hit novel and its just-released sequel. Surviving the horrors of the Great War only be plunged into the machinations of rumrunners and plutocrats, detective Paul Shenstone keeps watch in the shadows of the Jazz Age. "Mel Bradshaw dazzled many readers...Now he's done it again." - Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail "A double delight...totally immerses the reader." - ForeWord Reviews "Bradshaw has a winner here." Quill & Quire Fire on the Runway - Paul Shenstone Mystery #2 (NEW!) When grenade explodes outside a west-end hotel room, a failed assassination turns into a dangerous game that could plunge the world back into war. Quarrel with the Foe - Paul Shenstone Mystery #1 Once an infantryman in Flanders, detective Paul Shenstone now cleans scum off the streets in 1920s Toronto. But when an explosive case offers him a big break, can betray his fellow officers for it?
Chief Inspector Pointer's Cases - 12 Golden Age Murder Mysteries
Chief Inspector Pointer's Cases - 12 Golden Age Murder Mysteries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chief Inspector Pointer's Cases - 12 Golden Age Murder Mysteries write by Dorothy Fielding. This book was released on 2023-11-15. Chief Inspector Pointer's Cases - 12 Golden Age Murder Mysteries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chief Inspector Pointer is on a mission to catch the biggest and the baddest of criminals. Aided by his side-kicks, Pointer is a master of observation and daring. DigiCat presents to you the meticulously edited Boxed Set of his myriad adventures and intriguing cases for your absolute reading pleasure. Contents: The Eames-Erskine Case The Charteris Mystery The Footsteps That Stopped The Clifford Affair The Cluny Problem The Wedding Chest Mystery The Craig Poisoning Mystery The Tall House Mystery Tragedy atBeechcroft The Case of the Two Pearl Necklaces Scarecrow Mystery at the Rectory
