Her deep love for Innsmouth and her desire to free its people from malefic influences was compelling. While a ruthless bootlegger, she wasn’t portrayed as a one-dimensional baddie. Aside from Betsy and Wini, I was especially taken by Nova Malone, proprietor of the Purple Cat in Innsmouth. I was impressed by how well plotted this novel was and by its strong cast of characters. There she encounters Tom Sweets, a bookseller, who has accidentally sold the Deadly Grimoire, an infamous volume, to two competing local clients. When she hears news of another disappearance, she and Wini fly to Arkham and into a world of trouble. They discover a shared background of eerie encounters and eldritch phenomena centred around the New England town of Arkham.īetsy has been investigating the disappearance of a friend during the filming of ‘Mask of Silver’. While researching a wing-walking scene, she meets the fearless Winifred Habbamock, a barnstorming pilot. Not only is she the star of the popular 1920s serial adventure, The Flapper Detective, she owns her own studio and is fully in charge of her career. While a sequel to Jones’ ‘Mask of Silver’, it worked fine as a standalone as enough details of past events were mentioned to provide context.īetsy Baxter proved a delightful protagonist/narrator. There’s nothing quite as entertaining as sitting down with an Arkham Horror novel. My thanks to Aconyte Books for an eARC via NetGalley of ‘The Deadly Grimoire’ by Rosemary Jones. It’s the best of Pearl White’s stunts and more but with a woman in charge, not in peril. “And I knew the Fearless Flapper Detective was a winner. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. I currently share my home with 2,000+ volumes, not all cataloged here. The complete list on my website.Īs the co-author of the Encyclopedia of Collectible Childrens Books, I spent many years collecting and often dip back into these treasures for my own pleasure and entertainment. My other science fiction and fantasy short stories appear in various anthologies. Check out teen adventurer Morgan Lee's encounters with a steampunk takeover of the library in "Wrecker of Engines" (originally published in Cobalt City Rookies). When not battling cosmic horrors, animated skeletons, and other supernatural foes, I'm authoring tales of Cobalt City, a place of superheroes, super villains, and regular joes just trying to get by. I've written novels set in the Forgotten Realms, City of the Dead and Crypt of the Moaning Diamond, as well as several short stories and serial fiction Cold Steel and Secrets set in this Dungeons & Dragons world. Recently plunged into the Roaring Twenties for the Arkham Horror titles Mask of Silver and its sequel The Deadly Grimoire.
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