John Sinister is not having a good week.
Hired to look into some shady goings on at the airship factory, his investigation has barely begun before people start dying. Soon he's on the wrong side of some fairly unpleasant people, and that's before he meets Dexter, the world's only walking, talking, mechanical cat. That's when things get complicated.
With secret societies, arrogant aristocrats, and criminal chocolatiers to contend with, John and Dexter will have to keep their wits about them if they're going to come out of this alive. And if John happens to fall in love with his employer's daughter along the way, well nobody said catching a killer was going to be easy now did they?
"An addictive mix of crime and steampunk"
SFF WORLD
"If you are a steampunk fan... this is the book for you"
MADELEINE HOLLY-ROSING, Creator, Boston Metaphysical Society
"A fun adventure story"
NEVER WAS MAGAZINE
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A lifelong lover of hats and the Lake District, when Keith's not up a mountain he likes to write stories about airships, murderers, thieves, and talking cats. A writer since he was eight years old, his first novel, "Dexter & Sinister: Detecting Agents" will be published in the summer of 2020.
Keith has been around the world, set foot on six of the seven continents, ridden a camel, trained as a yoga teacher, lived in an ashram, got a tattoo he doesn't regret, and invented a board game that he still hopes one day to inflict upon the world.
Keith was short-listed for the Lindisfarne Prize ? an award for new crime writers in the north ? in 2019, for his short story "Miss Bloom's Final Summation."