Volg de spannende avonturen van een jonge bodejongen die door de verraderlijke straten van Victoriaans Londen navigeert. Deze serie combineert meesterlijk historische omgevingen met ijzingwekkende bovennatuurlijke mysteries. Elke aflevering dompelt lezers onder in een wereld waarin gewone bezorgingen leiden tot buitengewone ontmoetingen met het ongewone. Bereid je voor op een boeiende reis vol spanning, gevaar en de duisternis die onder de oppervlakte van de stad loert.
Soon after Victorian messenger Barnaby Grimes is attacked by a huge beast while crossing London's rooftops, he becomes entangled in a mystery involving patent medicine, impoverished patients, and very expensive furs.
After collecting a strange parcel from a deserted ship in the fog of the docks, and delivering it to the local schoolmaster, Barnaby Grimes thinks he's earned a moment to sit on the rooftops and eat his favourite pasty. But soon he realises that all is not well at the school - but is the problem quite as he expects it?
In Dickensian times, people were terrified of being buried alive, and so were left in their coffin with a wire, attached to a bell, running from above the ground, down through the earth and the lid of the coffin, and tied to the little finger of the buried body.
Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad, high-stacking his way across the rooftops of his city in search of adventure and mystery. In each tale, he encounters a supernatural force and must battle the horrors that await him.In the fiercely competitive world of early photography, the rewards are immense but so are the risks. After an experiment goes disastrously wrong, Barnaby finds himself on the trail of a mad chemist with a talent for disappearing into thin air . . .