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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Champagne Charlie and the Amazing Gladys
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'Hungover aristocrat Edward “Charlie” Decharles awakens in the back of a steam-cab, only to discover that the driver has been murdered. Unused to feeling responsible for anything, he feels compelled to find the killer. As he investigates, he meets “The Amazing” Gladys Dunchurch, a stage magician’s assistant whose employer has disappeared – and not in a good way. They form an alliance – Charlie will help Gladys with his considerable resources and Gladys will help Charlie with her even more considerable brains.

'Soon they discover that their respective mysteries are not only connected to each other, but related to other seemingly unrelated strangeness transpiring in London – the murder of an astronomer, an attack on a patent medicine factory, a mysterious cult in an idyllic town, and reports of deadly creatures in the London sewers.

'Charlie and Gladys find themselves pitted against dead-eyed assassins, murderous pirates, wingless flying machines, and perhaps even creatures from beyond this Earth. And lurking behind it all lies a sinister cabal that knows the secret origin of the steam-powered society that powers their world. Can our heroes save the day, or will the fallout from that secret destroy two worlds?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Steampunk.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fyshwick, Hume - Fyshwick - Canberra airport area, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: Odyssey Books , 2020 .
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      Extent: 330p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 3 March 2020.
      ISBN: 9781922311016
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