The Mystery of the Empty Bay

Burton and Swinburne return for a series of new adventures exclusive to Kindle. Mark Hodder introduced his steampunk heroes in the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel THE STRANGE AFFAIR OF SPRING HEELED JACK. Through that and five subsequent novels, Sir Richard Francis Burton and his erratic assistant, the poet Algernon Swinburne, battled to repair the mechanisms of time. In this new series of short stories, they have settled into their new lives in an alternate 1862 and are now tackling a new threat to the British Empire: a nefarious organisation known as the Black Pentagram. Straightforward crime fighting? Not when the opponents are practitioners of black magic! In THE MYSTERY OF THE EMPTY BAY (9,000 words), the first sorcerer is identified and hunted but seems to vanish into thin air ... or perhaps into deep water! Look out for the second story in the series: THE DISASTER AT DALE DYKE.


Genre: Science Fiction