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The Scarp, also known as The Emporium of Human Misery, a savage demon is stalking its streets. A powerful secret society, the League of the Golden Unicorn, is bent on restoring the monarchy. Could they be inciting a revolution from the bowels of the city? Meanwhile, Lord Bortle, a member of the League, wants to create a Fabulary Garden full of fantastical creatures from the underworld...and all he's missing is a werewolf. The demon Bazimaal knows where the werewolf is hiding: in the house of the famous conjurer Callisto. Crispin, Callisto and a feisty new river-girl, Dessica Flaunt, must crack codes, reclaim the werewolf and return the demon to the underworld, before Bazimaal triumphs and the Scarp is utterly destroyed...
From the Back Cover
[from a newspaper cutting...]
The Evening Hermes
KILLER STRIKES AGAIN!
Residents of Wolveston were said to be terrified yesterday after yet another gruesome murder. Squalida MacHeath, the notorious criminal mastermind, is not thought to be linked to the killings. Indeed, the claw marks found on the bodies point to something even more sinister, and possibly supernatural
Orphan Crispin Rattle, hero of The Black Sphinx,is plunged into another exciting and dramatic adventure as a monster prowls the streets of Wolveston and a mad earl allies himself with a deadly secret society . . .
Set in the sort of parallel-universe England you might find in Joan Aiken or Philip Pullman Daily Telegraph