Shalaby W. Shalaby, Victorian private detective, regards it as his civic duty to investigate the grave mystery of the counterfeited ladies' hats. His companion, Byron Fecklace, inventor of the Gatling sword, does not consider the matter nearly so pressing--but he is beginning to find his own mounting debts a trifle inconvenient. With the help of a dime novel and a dumb waiter, let us hope they can vanquish...
Counterfeiters!
A hail of gunfire!
Tailor's bills!
Austro-Hungarians?
And above all, the terrifying Teutonic spectre that awaits them in the UNNATURAL MANOR.
This Shalaby and Fecklace mystery adventure is part of a series of humorous steampunk / Victorian supernatural detective stories by Chantelle Messier.