This book is the follow-up to Twelve Minutes To Midnight and features several of the same characters. I actually enjoyed reading this slightly more, maybe because I was already familiar with the people involved and had a rough idea what to expect. Towards the end, several parts of the story are actually quite creepy!
A filmmaker decides to turn one of Montgomery Flinch's world-famous horror stories into a film (moving pictures have only just been invented). Penny, the main character, and Montgomery head off to a spooky house to make the film. While they are there, things start to go horribly wrong, and Penny and Montgomery face a desperate battle to stay alive
The book is a great way of learning about life in Victorian England and there are some similarities to the Sherlock Holmes stories, which were set at around the same time. It's an extremely enjoyable book to read, and the second half of the story moves at a really fast pace. You probably need to read Twelve Minutes To Midnight to really understand the relationship between Penny and Montgomery, but you will enjoy that too.
I really hope that there will be a third book in the series (does anyone know?). However, if there is going to be, it will have to take place right at the end of the Victorian era, as this book is set in 1900.
Highly recommended.
Mr Biddle
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