It is the Winter of 1870 London, and there has just been a murder. Factory Manager Timber Spruce was found dead outside the Tirek Firearms Facotry. What looks to the police commissioner as a simple suicide makes Police Sargent and Crimean War veteran Shining Armor see it for what it is, murder. For whatever reason both the commissioner and mayor want the matter buried and gone. For the sake of his sister and sense of justice Shining Armor calls on an old friend. Inspector Flash Sentry a fellow veteran of the Crimean War answers his old comrades call to solve this mystery with his partner Big Macintosh another fellow ex-soldier from the war.

The Country is in midst of what people are calling a second industrial revolution as machines unlike no other wonder the world. The British Empire expands ever further and under all of this the emerging middle class carve out their own place in society. In a world of change, political intrigue and, deceit what is the murder of one man in a sea of other tragedies. Follow Flash Sentry and Big Macintosh delve into the dark truth about the city of marvels.

By the way just to make things clear, I do not hate Timber Spruce. His murder was just the only person I could think off to make sense for this story. So I hope no one comes here expecting a character bash lol. I hope you enjoy my first delve into a mystery story. I shall endeavor to give you all the necessary clues, and remember the devil is in the details.