Thursday, December 23, 2010

The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack / Mark Hodder

The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder. 371 p.

A pretty interesting alternate history setting, featuring Captain Richard Burton as an investigator chosen by the Crown to figure out why wolf-featured men are stalking the streets of London. Features steampunk-type technology in what we would call the Victorian age--but Victoria was assassinated before the birth of her first child. I thought the explanation of the Spring Heeled Jack legend was a lot of fun. It looks like Hodder is setting this up as a series of books featuring investigations by Burton and Algernon Swinburne (the poet). If so, I'll definitely check out the next one.

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