Příběhy mladého poslíčka v drsném viktoriánském Londýně se prolínají s nadpřirozenými tajemstvími a mrazivými dobrodružstvími. Každá kniha nabízí napínavé pátrání po pravdě, kde se realita mísí s nadpřirozenem. Sledujte hrdinu, jak se potýká s nebezpečnými situacemi a odhaluje skryté síly, které ovládají temné uličky města. Jedná se o sérii plnou napětí, historie a nečekaných zvratů.
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 . . .