The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter

Date

2014-09

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Angry Robot Books

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Peer reviewed

Abstract

Elizabeth Barnabus is a consulting detective. More accurately, she is a consulting detective when disguised as her brother, the two of them long on the run from a family debt. Hired to find a missing aristocrat, Elizabeth and her brother run afoul of both nations of the divided England, including the all-powerful Patent Office, which manages the careful detente between the countries.

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Philip K Dick Award finalist. East Midlands Book of the Year shortlist. “Rod Duncan’s The Bullet Catcher’s Daughter is a magic box pulsating with energy. Compulsive reading from the get-go, the blend of steampunk alternate history wrapped in the enigma of a chase makes for first-rate entertainment in this finely crafted novel.” – Graham Joyce, author of Year of the Ladybird

Keywords

Alternate History, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction

Citation

Duncan, R. (2014) The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter, Angry Robot Books, Nottingham.

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Research Institute