The Paralogs of Phileas Fogg II: Under the Southern (Double) Cross

What new perils await Phileas Fogg, his wife Aouda, and their "valet" Passepartout, when the winning of his famed 1872 wager for racing around the world in 80 days only leads to further sinister adventure?

Ominous dying words will cause the elderly detective Auguste Dupin to have the experience of a lifetime, the ex-slave Thomasina Maker and the adventurer Allan Quartermain will show just how patient they could be, while the inventor Hiram Maxim grows less patient the more he sees beside the haunted lake, where Michel Ardan, agent of the Deuxi?me Bureau, shall face his greatest challenge. And who is Basil Escott?

Mystery meets science fiction with a wry steampunk twist, in this second of the new adventures of Mr. Phileas Fogg, late of No. 7 Savile Row, and now of Ferulands, Chertsey. Mr. Downard is privileged to reveal still more of the true history lurking behind the public Victorian facade of characters grander than life and stranger than art.