When the cruel captain of the airship Petty Snark gets strangled by his own cat-o-nine-tails, the crew wants to dismiss it as an unfortunate accident. But Lt. Aubrianna Chellbamber, Special Investigator of Perplexing Incidents for the Royal Foglandian Air Corps, smells murder. As she investigates the kinky crew and tries to untangle this sordid mess, we have to wonder: Will the killer lash out again, or will Aubrianna whip up a solution to this steamy ? and steampunky ? mystery?

Stan Carter lives in Bellevue, Nebraska. He has been in the newspaper business for nearly 30 years, serving as a reporter, copy editor, columnist, typesetter and paginator at various publications. He is the author of five novels published by Gypsy Shadow: "Petchy Maligula," "The Depraved Dances of Taram Zhod," "The Caskian Scandal," "The Extortions of Stiffani Voydalle" and "Kill My Husband."