This is who you call with your ghost problem. Unfortunately the telephone hasn't been invented yet.

London, 1871. An unlikely trio patrol the foggy, gaslit streets, grabbing ghosts, snatching spirits and apprehending apparitions.

The Professor: a proud, perpetually pickled gentleman with an iron constitution and a rusty sense of right and wrong.

His daughter Roberta: headstrong and wilful. When she sees what she wants, she takes it.

Septimus Jones: hired as a bookkeeper, sent out to catch deadly spirits. Often dead, or nearly.

The biggest mystery is how they survive at all.

"A steampunk version of Ghostbusters with just a dash of romance and mystery" - Hidden Gems reviews

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Simon Haynes has been writing fiction for over 20 years. This is his 27th published novel.

Author's note: A Riddle in Bronze was inspired by the works of Agatha Christie, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells and other greats from centuries past. Like them, I prefer to write 'clean' novels.

This is a self-contained novel, and does not end on a cliffhanger.

(105,000 words, or approximately 400 paperback pages.)