Beneath London

A Tale of Langdon St. Ives

James P. Blaylock

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781783292615
• Print ISBN:
  9781783292608

When the sudden collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm, Langdon St. Ives sets out explore it, not knowing that a wealthy psychopath is working to keep the underworld's secrets hidden for reasons of his own. Assumed to be dead and buried beneath London, St. Ives lives secretly on the streets of the great city and investigates a string of ghastly crimes.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Also by James P. Blaylock
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Prologue: The Dark Realm
• One: Mr. Treadwell and Mr. Snips
• Two: A Golden Afternoon
• Three: Elysium Asylum
• Four: The Pawnbroker’s
• Five: Mother Laswell’s Request
• Six: Beaumont’s Reward
• Seven: Hereafter Farm
• Eight: The Broken Lens
• Nine: The London Metropolitan Police
• Ten: Leaving for London
• Eleven: Upside Down
• Twelve: Miss Bracken
• Thirteen: Ned Ludd
• Fourteen: The View from the River
• Fifteen: Beneath London
• Sixteen: Fell House
• Seventeen: The Gipsy Encampment
• Eighteen: Sleep Like Death
• Nineteen: The Half Toad Inn
• Twenty: Beaumont in the Morning
• Twenty-One: Breakfast
• Twenty-Two: Aura Goggles
• Twenty-Three: The Travails of Miss Bracken
• Twenty-Four: Out of the Frying Pan
• Twenty-Five: Bow Street Police Station
• Twenty-Six: The Prisoner
• Twenty-Seven: Mr. Nobel’s Ingenious Dynamite
• Twenty-Eight: Mr. Lewis at Work
• Twenty-Nine: In at the Window
• Thirty: At the Dead House
• Thirty-One: Three Severed Heads
• Thirty-Two: Finn and Clara
• Thirty-Three: Flight
• Thirty-Four: The Calm Before
• Thirty-Five: The Madhouse
• Thirty-Six: Narbondo’s Alley
• Thirty-Seven: The Chase
• Thirty-Eight: The Painted Box
• Thirty-Nine: Commodore Nutt
• Forty: The Black Flag
• Forty-One: The Battle
• Forty-Two: The Penultimate Ending
• Epilogue: The First Snowfall
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author