Contents

  Welcome

  Dedication

  Prelude: A Promise of Diversion

  Chapter One: A Pleasant Evening Ride

  Chapter Two: Dreadful Aesthetics

  Chapter Three: Theory and Practice

  Chapter Four: In One Fashion or Another

  Chapter Five: An Insoluble Puzzle

  Chapter Six: Reflexes and Temper

  Chapter Seven: Breakfast in Mayefair

  Chapter Eight: You Will Do, Sir

  Chapter Nine: The Abortionist

  Chapter Ten: Tea and Data

  Chapter Eleven: Unpleasantness is Not Over

  Chapter Twelve: Our First Dinner

  Chapter Thirteen: Britannia’s Worst

  Chapter Fourteen: The Wark and the Werks

  Chapter Fifteen: Steelstruck Teeth

  Chapter Sixteen: Not You, Too

  Chapter Seventeen: It Discommodes Me

  Chapter Eighteen: We Use You Dreadfully

  Chapter Nineteen: For My Tender Person

  Chapter Twenty: More If I Die

  Chapter Twenty-One: Becoming Acquainted

  Chapter Twenty-Two: They Are Not Exercised Enough

  Chapter Twenty-Three: Better Your Sausage Than Your Life

  Chapter Twenty-Four: Never Aesthetically Lacking

  Chapter Twenty-Five: Throckmorton, I Presume

  Chapter Twenty-Six: Introductions Can Wait

  Chapter Twenty-Seven: Unpleasant, But Instructive

  Interlude: The Cliffs Will Be No Bar

  Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Unforgivable

  Chapter Twenty-Nine: I Find Myself Reluctant to Disappoint

  Chapter Thirty: Duel and Discipline

  Chapter Thirty-One: Quarry and Quarry

  Chapter Thirty-Two: Bannon’s Ride

  Chapter Thirty-Three: Man Only Dies Once

  Chapter Thirty-Four: Always the Bloody Way

  Chapter Thirty-Five: Don’t Touch the Contacts

  Chapter Thirty-Six: An Awakening

  Chapter Thirty-Seven: Hardly Bad Company

  Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Life’s Work

  Chapter Thirty-Nine: Who Dies Next?

  Chapter Forty: The Need Was Dire

  Chapter Forty-One: Amenable to Control

  Chapter Forty-Two: A Most Logical Sorceress

  Rankes of those Sorcerousse

  Acknowledgements

  Extras

  Meet the Author

  Interview

  A Preview of The Red Plague Affair

  Books by Lilith Saintcrow

  Praise for The Iron Wyrm Affair

  Copyright

  Copyright

  The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  Copyright © 2012 by Lilith Saintcrow

  Excerpt from The Red Plague Affair copyright © 2012 by Lilith Saintcrow

  All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at permission[email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights.

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