ISBN ? (US pbk),,, 0-586-07345-0 (UK pbk)

"George Dower didn't share his father's genius with clockwork and was perplexed when a customer asked him to repair one of old Mr Dower's strange devices.

"But before he could set to work on the piece, strangers had broken into his Clerkenwell watchmaking shop in order to steal the defective novelty.

"Were these same people responsible for the vile rumours circulating in Victorian London -- that George Dower was no more than a womanising violinist?

"To find out Dower needed to penetrate the secrets of the cult of Saint Monkfish, to learn of the Royal Anti-Society -- and familiarise himself with Lord Bendray's unhinged experiments in 'Cataclysm Harmonics'.

"Had his father been a genius, a madman, or both? What was the nature of his legacy -- and of the infernal devices with which he had peopled his twilight years?" [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1988]

Hardcore steampunk.