The Aylesford Skull

The first full-length steampunk novel in twenty years from James Blaylock, considered to be one of the founding fathers of the genre. Professor Langdon St Ives, brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer, is at home in Aylesford with his family. Not far away a steam launch is taken by pirates, the crew murdered, and a grave is possibly robbed of the skull. The suspected grave robber, the infamous Dr Ignacio Narbondo, is an old nemesis of St Ives, and when Narbondo kidnaps his son Eddie, St Ives races to London in pursuit.