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Dragons & Dirigibles (The Gaslight Chronicles #7)  by Cindy Spencer Pape The stories surrounding the marvellously rich group of people we know from the Gaslight Chronicles continue to be mined. Melody McKay an airship engineer, pilot and member of the Order of the Round Table, is testing her dirigible's new engine design over the Devonshire coast when either the boiler or generator inexplicably explodes. She crashes into the parklands in front of Black Heath Manor.  Fortunately the damage to her is minor, bruises and a sprained ankle. Her Scottish deerhound Birch (who has his own set of specially designed goggles--how cute and practical!) is fine too. Captain Victor Arrington, the current Earl of Blackwell has returned from his first love, the sea, to take up the lordly reins and care for his niece Emma when his brother, the late Earl, and his sister-in-law are killed in an accident. He and Barnaby, his trusty ex shipmate now butler, are scouring the rocks looking ...

Ashes & Alchemy (The Gaslight Chronicles)   by Cindy Spencer Pape  Nefarious doings! London, 1850.   Residents must wear masks to protect themselves from the coal smoke that hangs heavily in the air. A product of the devotion to all things steam. It is a cold and bitter night. Police Inspector Sebastian Brown is disturbed by a woman collapsing on his door step. Searching for a doctor who lives near to Sebastian, she has crossed London without a mask, 'tantamount to a death sentence,' braving the frost and fog, and the possibility of vampyres or cutthroats.' Her daughter is deathly ill. Sebastian accompanies the woman, Minerva (Minnie) Shaw, to fetch her daughter, Ivy. What they find is a murdered friend, a room indicating chaotic search, and a missing sick child. Murders and a mysterious illness that has the patient sweating a black soot are just the beginning. The black soot residue appears to be a bacteria capable of taking soot out of the bod...