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
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Copyright © 2012 by Lilith Saintcrow
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Lilith Saintcrow, The Iron Wyrm Affair
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