Prince of Hearts (Elders and Welders Chronicles) by Foxe Margaret

Author:Foxe, Margaret [Foxe, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Margaret Foxe
Published: 2013-06-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Dr. Xavier Augustus was a man with a past. But what that past was, no one had ever been able to discern. He had quite literally fallen upon London one afternoon in a deflating hot air balloon he’d piloted somewhere from the Far East, and set up shop as a detective for hire on Bond Street. He had a Chinese valet, Ping, and two small hairy dogs, Kublai and Genghis, from that same country. All three of them pretended to speak no English.

A student of human nature, Augustus had a knack for solving the crimes that left his colleagues at Scotland Yard baffled. Augustus was the consummate trickster, yet he seemed to understand what motivated the darkest villains, and placed so little value upon his own safety in the pursuit of them that Miss Wren sometimes wondered if he was entirely sane. Clearly, he had a few screws loose upstairs, but then again, so did she, to have remained his employee for so long …

-from The Chronicles of Miss Wren and Dr. Augustus, 1893

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