Beneath London

#4 Langdon St Ives

James P. Blaylock

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Titan Books
12 June 2015

Science fiction; Fantasy; Mythological Creatures, People & Places; Detective Sci-Fi; Classic Steampunk

Series: Langdon St. Ives

When the sudden collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneathLondon, Langdon St. Ives sets out explore it, not knowing that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathicmurderer is working to keep the underworld's secrets hidden for reasons of his own.

Assumed to be dead and buried deep beneath London, St. Ives lives secretly on the streets of the great citywhere he, Alice St. Ives, and their stalwart friends investigate a string of ghastly crimes: the gruesomedeath of a witch in a forest hovel, the kidnapping of a blind, psychic girl who can see into the human soul,and the grim horrors of a secret hospital where experiments in medical electricity and the development ofhuman, vampiric fungi serve the strange, murderous ends of St. Ives's greatest and most dangerousnemesis.

By: James P. Blaylock
Imprint: Titan Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 304g
ISBN: 9781783292608
ISBN 10: 1783292601
Series: Langdon St. Ives
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 12 June 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

James P. Blaylock was mentored by Philip K. Dick, along with K.W. Jeter and Tim Powers, and is regarded as one of the founding fathers of modern steampunk. Winner of two World Fantasy Awards and a Philip K. Dick Award, he is director of the Creative Writing Conservatory at the Orange County School of the Arts and a professor at Chapman University, where he has taught for 20 years.

Reviews for Beneath London (#4 Langdon St Ives)

Hideous murders, kidnappings and abductions, hair-raising close calls and ingenious escapes. - Michael Collings The book was very readable and I enjoyed the secondaries and the villain greatly - Sci Fi Pulse Blaylock crafts rich characters and intertwines them in a bravo story that packs plenty into 400 pages. - Blood Shed Hideous murders, kidnappings and abductions, hair-raising close calls and ingenious escapes. - Michael Collings Blaylock crafts rich characters and intertwines them in a bravo story that packs plenty into 400 pages. - Blood Shed Hideous murders, kidnappings and abductions, hair-raising close calls and ingenious escapes. - Michael Collings