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Octavius Guy and the Case of the Mendacious Medium
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Send for Octavius Guy #3:
Octavius Guy and the Case of the Mendacious Medium
A Seventh Rainbow paperback; also available as an ebook.
Christmas is coming, and yet surely Mr Crabbit—yes, he who rules over the petty cash at Mr Bruff’s law practice—cannot be so distracted by its approach that he fails to berate Gooseberry for presenting him with a water-stained receipt. Something is clearly amiss, and the Victorian boy detective vows to find out what.br />br />
Join Octavius and his ragtag bunch of friends on their third adventure as they investigate a shadowy spiritualist medium recently arrived from Massachusetts, only to discover that somebody desperately wants her dead.
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Send for Octavius Guy #1:
Octavius Guy and the Case of the Thieving Maharajah
A Seventh Rainbow paperback; also available as an ebook.
1852. With the business of the Moonstone diamond finally laid to rest, Mr Franklin Blake and his wife Rachel are now happily married, living in London, and blessed with a healthy baby daughter named Julia. Mr Blake has taken his late father’s seat in Parliament, and his party’s fortunes are on the rise—in fact they are about to overthrow the coalition government of the day.br />br />
But then the inexplicable occurs. Miss Rachel and her elderly aunt are attacked in the street by a gang of feral children, whose only purpose, it seems, is to plant a photographic portrait of a young, rich Indi | |  | | Gooseberry
Octavius Guy and the Case of the Thieving Maharajah: the fourteen-year-old Victorian boy detective's first big case.
p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal">font size="3">font face="Times New Roman">span lang="EN-US">1852. With the business of the Moonstone diamond finally laid to rest, Mr. Franklin Blake and his wife Rachel are now happily married, living in London, and blessed with a healthy baby daughter named Julia. Mr. Blake has taken his late father’s seat in Parliament, and his party’s fortunes are on the rise/span>span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-US">—in fact t/span>span lang="EN-US">hey are about to overthrow the coalition government | |  | | Octopus
Octavius Guy and the Case of the Throttled Tragedienne: the fourteen-year-old Victorian boy detective's second big case.
p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal">span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">font size="3">font face="Times New Roman">Gooseberry, the fourteen-year-old Victorian boy detective, is having his fair share of problems. Not only must he juggle the task of being Mr Bruff’s newly-appointed chief investigator with the unwanted responsibility of managing London’s entire criminal underclass, he also has to decide whether a drunken wretch of a man—who turns up on his doorstep claiming to be his father—is who he says he is.o:p>/o:p>/font>/font>/span>
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Send for Octavius Guy #2:
Octavius Guy and the Case of the Throttled Tragedienne
A Seventh Rainbow paperback; also available as an ebook.
When the leading actress dies in mysterious circumstances on stage during a performance of The Duchess of Malfi at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Gooseberry feels duty-bound to investigate. It is, after all, a great deal more exciting than the last case he was assigned to: the tracking down of a rich old lady’s errant cat!
Join Octavius (AKA Gooseberry, AKA Octopus) and his ragtag bunch of friends on their second adventure, a revenge tragedy (of sorts) in (roughly—very roughly) three acts.
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The Involuntary Medium #1
A Seventh Rainbow paperback; also available as an ebook.
Murky Victorian London. Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Blaylock has done her best to fill her absconding mother’s shoes, but her father is lazy and feckless, and her little sister is riddled with tuberculosis. When Lizzie has a fit at school, for which she is expelled, she and those around her slowly begin to realize that she may have special powers…powers to communicate with the dead. br />br />br /> | |  | | The Bridge of Dead Things
Murky Victorian London. Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Blaylock has done her best to fill her absconding mother’s shoes, but her father is lazy and feckless, and her little sister is riddled with tuberculosis. When Lizzie has a fit at school, for which she is expelled, she and those around her slowly begin to realize that she may have special powers…powers to communicate with the dead.
p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt" class="MsoNormal">span style="font-size: small">font face="Calibri">em>span style="font-size: small">font face="Calibri">‘Please!’ Miss Otis wailed. ‘Please! For the love of God, step back!’/font>/span>/em>/font>/span>
p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt" class="MsoNormal">span style="font-size: small">font face="Calibri">em>span style="font-size: small">font face="Calibri">span style="font-size: small">i>font face="Calibri">And suddenly the man did. A murmur ran th | |  | | The Scarab Heart
Egypt, 1885. Theft and murder are afoot at an archaeological dig in the Valley of the Kings. Lizzie Blaylock, a young materializing medium of some renown, and her mentor, Miss Otis, thought they were there to vacation, especially as Lizzie has decided she wants nothing more to do with her powers. Her powers, however, have other things in mind.
p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt" class="MsoNormal">i>font size="3">font face="Calibri">‘Powers like yours expect to be used! Who knows what will happen if you choose to ignore them?’ /font>/font>/i>font size="3">font face="Calibri">o:p>/o:p>/font>/font>
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| |  | | The Scarab Heart
The Involuntary Medium #2
A Seventh Rainbow paperback; also available as an ebook.
Egypt, 1885. Theft and murder are afoot at an archaeological dig in the Valley of the Kings. Lizzie Blaylock, a young materializing medium of some renown, and her mentor, Miss Otis, thought they were there to vacation, especially as Lizzie has decided she wants nothing more to do with her powers.br />br />
Her powers, however, have other things in mind.
br />br />br /> | |  | | Why the Victorians Saw Ghosts
An Illustrated Guide to 19th Century Spiritualism.
p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt" class="MsoNormal">font size="3">font face="Calibri">Originally conceived as a blog to accompany Gallagher's historical YA novels, this guide provides a great introduction to the fascinating phenomenon of 19th Century spiritualism. If you can't tell your materializations from your Mumlers, or never realized just how physical ghost-grabbing could get, then this may well be the perfect book for you.o:p>/o:p>/font>/font>
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