![]() The girls are able to discover and solve the obvious bits of the mystery, but by the end, there are questions still left unresolved, including, but not limited to: who is the murderer? How is there time travel? How will the time travelers return home? Why is London so strange? How will they officially stop the murderous secret society? However, the biggest question that Gleason thinks we care about is this one: which boy will each girl end up with?īecause, of course, each girl has plenty of male friends. There's time travel, Egyptian mythology, secret societies and, most importantly, murder. They have steam cycles and airbuses and outdoor lifts as well as elaborate clockwork gear decorations. ![]() It's set in an alternate universe, "cognoggin" (steampunk, basically) Victorian London, where electricity has been outlawed. Evaline Stoker, the sister of "Dracula" author Bram Stoker, and Alvermina Holmes, Sherlock's niece, are sent on a mysterious mission by Irene Adler to investigate the deaths of rich white girls. ![]() "The Clockwork Scarab," by Colleen Gleason, has an interesting concept. ![]()
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