The Steam, Smoke & Mirrors Series: Books 1-3

“A must for fans of steampunk.”

Welcome to the world of magic, time travelling, murder, mystery, thrills and comedy. An X-Files for the Victorian era. The box set features all the books in the series so far!

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Steam, Smoke & Mirrors

When a Music Hall hypnotist escapes from the London County Asylum she leaves a single word on the wall of her cell - scrawled in blood: ‘MAGISTER’.
Terror then stalks the capital’s streets as the killing spree begins. But why does Superintendent William Melville of The Special Branch call upon the skills of brilliant stage magician Michael Magister and his glamorous assistant Phoebe Le Breton to help capture the murderer? Especially as Michael is one of those named on the death list.
From the recently discovered journals of Professor Artemus More, secrets are laid bare, mysteries revealed, illusions exposed and conspiracies uncovered, all in a Steampunk vision of Victorian Britain. But is anything truly what it seems?
Or is it all just Steam, Smoke and Mirrors?

The Lazarus Curiosity - Steam, Smoke & Mirrors 2

PANICKED by a satanic portrait painter, determined to disgrace the Royal family… TERRORISED by a deadly gas, primed to wipe out the Government…
With great reluctance, what else can Superintendent William Melville of the Special Branch do but, once again, send for … THE MAGICIANS!
Murder and malevolence, treachery and tragedy – all must surely be inevitable!
Especially when the Tarot predicts – DEATH.

The Nostradamus Curiosity - Steam, Smoke & Mirrors 3

Only a mild-mannered medium and her spirit guide, Nostradamus, know for certain what life will bring – or take away. And when two astronomers are found dead at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich...are the causes natural...or Supernatural?

Scotland Yard’s Head of the Special Branch, Superintendent William Melville, needs once again to send for the magicians, but has their time run out?

"The Nostradamus Curiosity is the third Steam, Smoke & Mirrors murder mystery featuring the slick, wise-cracking, crime-solving Steampunk Music Hall illusionists Michael Magister and Phoebe Le Breton, and threatens to be their most terrifying, nail-biting adventure yet."

But will it be their last? The clock is ticking...but is time going forwards...or backwards.

The Windsor Curiosity – free short story

A Royal Command Performance at Windsor Castle.

An evening of deadly illusion staged by steampunk Music Hall magicians Michael Magister and Phoebe Le Breton…

in the presence of loyal castle staff, devoted civil servants and Queen Victoria herself.

But a psychopath lurks among them, determined to murder our Monarch.

Is the killer in the crowd? Or taking part in the show?

Yet another State secret is exposed in…

‘Steam, Smoke & Mirrors – The Windsor Curiosity’


Genre: Science Fiction