Bartleby and James

by Michael Coorlim · 2012

Galvanic Century series

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Alton Bartleby is a social savant and the foppish toast of steampunk London's upper crust. James Wainwright is a brilliant but socially stunted working class engineer with a flair for invention and a propensity towards violence. Together they solve the mysteries that Scotland Yard cannot.

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This novel is the first in the Galvanic Century series of steampunk mysteries.

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