Narbondo Series by James P. Blaylock

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  • The Digging Leviathan (Narbondo #1)
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    The Digging Leviathan (Narbondo #1)

    James P. Blaylock

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1984

    Southern California—sunny days, blue skies, neighbors on flying bicycles…ghostly submarines…mermen off the Catalina coast…and a vast underground sea stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Inland Empire where Chinese junks ply an illicit trade and enormous creatures from ages past still survive. It is a place of wonder…and dark conspiracies. A place rife with adventure—if one knows where to look for it. Two such seekers are the teenagers Jim Hastings and his friend, Giles Peach... more

  • Homunculus (Narbondo #2)
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    Homunculus (Narbondo #2)

    James P. Blaylock

    Rated: 3.48 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1986

    In 1870s London, a city of contradictions and improbabilities, a dead man pilots an airship and living men are willing to risk all to steal a carp. Here, a night of bangers and ale at the local pub can result in an eternity at the Blood Pudding with the rest of the reanimated dead.

  • Lord Kelvin's Machine (Narbondo #3)
    #3

    Lord Kelvin's Machine (Narbondo #3)

    James P. Blaylock

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1992

    Determined to avert the doom of his beloved wife, scientist and detective Langdon St. Ives sees his only hope for doing so in Lord Kelvin's time machine, but the diabolical Dr. Ignacio Narbondo has other plans for the invention. Reprint. AB.

  • The Ebb Tide (Narbondo #4)
    #4

    The Ebb Tide (Narbondo #4)

    James P. Blaylock

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2009

    Deep beneath the quicksands of Morecambe Bay lies a shifting graveyard of lost things, long sunk to the sea bottom. Pursued by the nefarious Dr. Narbondo, Langdon St. Ives and his stalwart companions descend beneath the sands in a diving chamber, and amid the debris of human bones and the wreckage of human lives, they search for an alien device, which, in the wrong hands,could change the course of human history and provide Narbondo with the means to enslave mankind….

  • The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs (Narbondo #5)
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    The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs (Narbondo #5)

    James P. Blaylock

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2011

    Deep within the cavern-riddled chalk cliffs above the English Channel there brews a threat to the very sanity of the people of Britain. A startling madness infects the members of the Explorer’s Club in London, the debacle coinciding with the disappearance of Alice St. Ives and the murder of the lighthouse keeper at Beachy Head. Langdon St. Ives sets out to rescue his wife and to stop the accelerating train of events hurtling he and his friends into a dark tunnel of madness and death.

  • Zeuglodon (Narbondo #6)
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    Zeuglodon (Narbondo #6)

    James P. Blaylock

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2012

    "A skeletal hand clutching an iron key lies hidden within a mermaid's wooden sarcophagus; a hand-drawn map is stolen from beneath the floorboards an old museum; an eccentric sleeping inventor dreams of a passage to the center of the hollow earth, and by dreaming of the passage, brings it into being. Pursued by kidnappers thinking of riches and murder, Katherine Perkins and her two cousins, junior members of The Guild of St... more

  • The Aylesford Skull (Narbondo #7)
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    The Aylesford Skull (Narbondo #7)

    James P. Blaylock

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2013

    It is the summer of 1883 and Professor Langdon St. Ives - brilliant but eccentric scientist and explorer - is at home in Aylesford with his family. However, a few miles to the north a steam launch has been taken by pirates above Egypt Bay; the crew murdered and pitched overboard. In Aylesford itself a grave is opened and possibly robbed of the skull. The suspected grave robber, the infamous Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, is an old nemesis of Langdon St. Ives. When Dr... more

  • The Adventure of the Ring of Stones (Narbondo #8)
    #8

    The Adventure of the Ring of Stones (Narbondo #8)

    James P. Blaylock

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2014

    The secret log of a murdered lighthouse keeper falls into the hands of the immensely wealthy Gilbert Frobisher, who discovers encoded within it a stunning and dangerous mystery. Against all odds Langdon St. Ives and his companions set sail in the dark of night for the West Indies aboard Gilbert Frobisher’s steam yacht, pursued by murderous pirates and bound for an uncharted volcanic island on the verge of eruption... more

  • Beneath London (Narbondo #9)
    #9

    Beneath London (Narbondo #9)

    James P. Blaylock

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2015

    The collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath the city. Langdon St. Ives sets out to explore it, not knowing that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep the underworld’s secrets hidden for reasons of his own. St... more

  • River's Edge (Narbondo #10)
    #10

    River's Edge (Narbondo #10)

    James P. Blaylock

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2017

    The body of a girl washes up on a mud bank along the edge of the River Medway amid a litter of poisoned fish and sea birds, casting an accusing shadow upon the deadly secrets of the Majestic Paper Mill and its wealthy owners. Simple answers to the mystery begin to suggest insidious secrets, and very quickly Langdon St. Ives and his wife Alice are drawn into a web of conspiracies involving murder, a suspicious suicide, and ritual sacrifice at a lonely and ancient cluster of standing stones... more

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