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On the surface, life is going well for Victorian special agent Sir Maurice Newbury, who has brilliantly solved several nigh-impossible cases for Queen Victoria with his indomitable assistant, Miss Veronica Hobbes, by his side. But these facts haven’t stopped Newbury from succumbing increasingly frequently to his dire flirtation with the lure of opium. His addiction is fueled in part by his ill-gotten knowledge of Veronica’s secret relationship with the queen, which Newbury fears must be some kind of betrayal. Veronica, consumed by worry and care for her prophetic but physically fragile sister Amelia, has no idea that she is a catalyst for Newbury’s steadily worsening condition.Veronica and Newbury’s dear friend Bainbridge, the Chief Investigator at Scotland Yard, tries to cover for him as much as possible, but when the body of a well known criminal turns up, Bainbridge and Veronica track Newbury down in an opium den and drag him out to help them with the case.
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George Mann is a Sunday Times bestselling novelist and scriptwriter. He's the author of the Newbury & Hobbes Victorian mystery series, as well as four novels about a 1920s vigilante known as The Ghost. He's also written bestselling Doctor Who novels, new adventures for Sherlock Holmes and the forthcoming supernatural crime series, Wychwood.His comic writing includes extensive work on Doctor Who, Dark Souls, Warhammer 40,000 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.He's written audio scripts for Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Sherlock Holmes, Warhammer 40,000 and more. As Editor he's assembled four anthologies of original Sherlock Holmes fiction, as well as multiple volumes of The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction and The Solaris Book of New Fantasy.His website is at www.george-mann.com, and you can find him on Twitter at @george_mann
