TY - BOOK AU - Duncan,Rod TI - The bullet-catcher's daughter: being volume one of the fall of the gas-lit empire T2 - Fall of the gas-lit empire SN - 0857665308 (pbk.) PY - 2014///] CY - Nottingham, New York PB - Angry Robot KW - Conspiracies KW - Fiction KW - False personation KW - Inventions KW - Luddites KW - Missing persons KW - Women private investigators KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Steampunk fiction KW - Alternative histories (Fiction) KW - gsafd KW - Fantasy fiction KW - Mystery fiction N2 - "Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life--as herself and as her brother, a private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus. But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better...."--from cover, p. [4] ER -