Newbury & Hobbes 04 - The Executioner's Heart (37 page)

The man’s hand strayed unconsciously to the string of bones around his throat, and he smiled.

NEWBURY AND HOBBES
WILL RETURN IN
THE REVENANT EXPRESS

NEWBURY & HOBBES INVESTIGATIONS BY GEORGE MANN

The Affinity Bridge

The Osiris Ritual

The Immorality Engine

The Executioner’s Heart

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

G
EORGE
M
ANN
is the author of four Newbury and Hobbes investigations, starting with
The Affinity Bridge
, as well as the stand-alone adventure
Ghosts of Manhattan
. He edited
The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction
anthology series and a number of fiction and nonfiction books, including
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
and
Sexton Blake, Detective
, a retrospective collection of classic Sexton Blake stories. He maintains a blog at
http://georgemann.wordpress.com
.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE EXECUTIONER
’
S HEART: A NEWBURY & HOBBES INVESTIGATION

Copyright © 2013 by George Mann

All rights reserved.

Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill

Cover art by Viktor Koen

Edited by Liz Gorinsky

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Mann, George.

    The executioner’s heart / George Mann.—First edition.

           p. cm.

    “A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

    ISBN 978-0-7653-2776-5 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-4299-4490-8 (e-book)

  1.  Newbury, Maurice (Fictitious character)–Fiction.   2.  Hobbes, Veronica (Fictitious character)–Fiction.   3.  London (England)–History–1800-1950–Fiction.   4.  Steampunk fiction.   I.  Title.

    PR6113.A546E94 2013

    823'.92—dc23

2013006323

e-ISBN 9781429944908

First Edition: July 2013