... in which Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes, investigators for Queen Victoria, solve a series of murders connected to the recent discovery of an ancient mummy.
Following The Affinity Bridge, this book is the second book in the Newbury and Hobbes Investigations series, featuring supernatural and occult mysteries in a steampunk setting. In this installment, after dealing with the revenant (ie, zombie) outbreak from the previous book, Sir Maurice Newbury and his assistant Veronica Hobbes are investigating two separate mysteries. Newbury attends the opening of an Egyptian sarcophagus, but later people connected to the mummy begin to be murdered, possibly by a man who is part undead human and part machine. Meanwhile, Hobbes is investigating the disappearances of several young women, all of whom were last seen attending a traveling magician's show.
