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A scandal in Battersea / Mercedes Lackey.
Mary and Dr. Watson are called in to investigate a serial killer in Battersea, a rough neighborhood in London. They discover that many more women are missing than have turned up actually dead. Meanwhile, their colleagues Nan and Sarah are tracking down a villain who is causing scandal by seducing young ladies of quality and then vanishing. Nan, Sarah, and the Watsons discover that they are hunting the same man - who isn't a man at all. It will require Elemental Magic, Sarah's mediumistic powers, and all of their combined wit and cunning to destroy the Golem - before all of London succumbs to its powers.
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- ISBN: 9780756411633 (paperback) :
- Physical Description: 313 pages ; 18 cm
- Publisher: New York : DAW Books, Inc., 2018.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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| Subject: | Watson, John H. (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Magic > Fiction. Psychics > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Fantasy fiction. |
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- Penguin Putnam
The twelfth novel in Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series reimagines Sherlock Holmes in a richly-detailed alternate 20th-century England
Christmas is a very special time of year. It is special for Psychic Nan Killian and Medium Sarah Lyon-White and their ward Suki, who are determined to celebrate it properly. It is special for their friends, Doctor John Watson, and his wife Mary, both Elemental Masters, who have found great delight in the season seeing it through young Sukiâs eyes.Â
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It is also special to others...for very different reasons.
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For Christmas Eve is also hallowed to dark forces, powers older than mankind, powers that come awake on this long, cold night. Powers best left alone. Powers that could shake the foundations of London and beyond.
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It begins slowly. Women disappearing in the dark of night, women only missed by those of their own kind. The whispers only begin when they start to reappearâbecause when they do, they are no longer sane. And when Nan and Sarah and the Watsons are called on to examine these victims, they discover that it was no ordinary horror of the streets that drove them mad.
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But then, the shadows reach for other victimsâgirls of good, even exalted families, who vanish from concerts, lectures, and evening balls. And it will take the combined forces of Magic, Psychic Powers, and the world's greatest detective to stop the darkness before it can conquer all.
