Listen to Mrs Edwardes

 

If Abbercrombie is the cornerstone, then Mrs Edwardes is the buttress of the world of Darius Darque – Supernatural Detective. Having run her lodgings in Belgravia for nigh on twenty years, thanks to a generous dowry, an unexpected inheritance and an even more unexpected loaded revolver belonging to her late fiance, she has come to recognise horror, terror, transmuting demons and ectoplasm. This last she readily admits is very difficult to get out of the antimacassars. Running a household for Darius Darque – Supernatural Detective is all in a day's work.

And the broad sword she keeps under her bed? Just a precaution.