Gunpowder debutantes the world's most exclusive detective

the world's most exclusive detective agency hunts London's most mysterious killer

" —The Times

Know Your Beholder introduces us to one of the most lovably flawed characters in recent fiction

and the truth behind the Watergate cover-up

Gunpowder debutantes the world's most exclusive detectiveWhen Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather than fuel guns or bombs neither of which had been thought of yet their simple mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal went on to make the modern world possible. As word of its explosive properties spread from Asia to Europe, from pyrotechnics to