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Sapphire and Steel
Books in series
#1.1
Sapphire and Steel
2005
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. A dark Winter's evening in the year 2004. Sixty-six year-old steam enthusiast and antiquarian book dealer Philip Burgess steps onto his long overdue train, unaware that Time has decreed that this will be his final journey. An old book has given Time the trigger it needs to break its chains. As reality and fiction become intertwined, a familiar story begins to play itself out. A story that can only end in murder. A 1930s steam train. Twelve passengers with ulterior motives. A mysterious conductor. One victim. And two detectives… Sapphire and Steel must uncover the secrets in Burgess' past, before the story can reach its terminus. But how can they succeed, when Time has made them a part of its plans already?
#1.2
Sapphire and Steel
2005
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. Suburbia, 2004. And it looks like rain. Sapphire and Steel are drawn to a house apparently much like any other on the street, except that this one, and the family living in it, harbour a secret that threatens to destroy them all.
#1.3
Sapphire and Steel
2005
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. London, a late summer morning. The present. Sapphire and Steel investigate an area of the city that is steeped in a rich and bloody history. Artifacts are uncovered that form a dangerous link with the past.
#1.4
Sapphire and Steel
2005
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. A lighthouse in the middle of a thunderstorm. Newly weds Nick and Suzy are planning to renovate the lighthouse. But the old building is haunted by an horrific past.
#1.5
Sapphire and Steel
2006
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. When Sapphire and Steel arrive at Blackledge Prison, an unexplained death proves to hold the first of an intriguing series of inconsistencies. What has happened to Time?
#2.1
Sapphire and Steel
2006
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. The school has stood for 100 years, and is rightly proud of its pupils' achievements. But not everyone wants to join in with the fun. What are the teachers so scared of? Why have the school's ghosts chosen now to enact their revenge? And what terrible truth is the headmaster hiding? Sapphire and Steel could spoil the party for everyone by asking such awkward questions. Perhaps they need teaching a lesson...
#2.2
Sapphire and Steel
2006
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. An auction of fine timepieces. A man who has lived for over 100 years. The greatest watchmaker in history. The mysterious theft of the greatest watch ever built. These people and events are inexorably linked by Time and the results could be cataclysmic for humanity. From London, 2006 to Jerusalem in 1983 and beyond - to 18th Century Paris - the strands are drawn together. A seemingly perfect web is forming. Only two elements can intervene on our behalf. But when Sapphire is struck down by disease and Steel is trapped for over 20 years, who will intervene on their behalf? "The future will be time-centric and Time will be everything."
#2.3
Sapphire and Steel
2006
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. Christmas Eve. The Present. The Capital Palace, once a popular theatre, now stands unused next to a long-abandoned graveyard. Plans to celebrate the work of a dead playwright in the theatre draw Sapphire and Steel into a deadly maze from which there is little hope of escape. In a house where all the clocks stopped at midnight, Sapphire is at the mercy of an old woman with a familiar face. And Steel is reunited with an old ally... but for how long?
#2.4
Sapphire and Steel
2007
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. 1949. The Tithonus Retirement Home, deep in an English forest. Sweet rationing has ended, the lights have come back on in London, and Matron is in a good mood. Celebrations are underway when a new resident arrives. Steel is alone. And tired. Soon he realises that linear time has stopped, but not only for the people in the home...
Sapphire and Steel
2007
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. Sapphire, Steel and Gold are uninvited guests at a wedding on board a boat, the Perfect Day. Quite why they are there soon becomes very apparent…
Authors
Steve Lyons
Author · 73 books
Joseph Lidster
Author · 35 books
David Bishop
Author · 7 books
Nigel Fairs
Author · 32 books
Simon Guerrier
Author · 74 books
Richard Dinnick
Author · 19 books
John Dorney
Author · 67 books
Sapphire and Steel
Series ·
15
books · 2005-2008
By
Steve Lyons
,
Joseph Lidster
,
David Bishop
, and more
#2.5
#2.6
The Mystery of the Missing Hour
2007
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. The Cairo Hilton. December 1926. An archaeological expedition arrives from England, ready to uncover the secrets of a long-lost Pharaoh's tomb. But someone on the expedition isn't what they appear to be. It's therefore lucky that when the first impossible murder takes place, two of the other hotel residents turn out to be quite the detectives…
#3.1
Sapphire and Steel
2008
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. Sapphire and Steel have gone. Sapphire and Steel are here.
#3.2
Sapphire and Steel
2008
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. A faded sitcom star wanders through the darkness of a deserted pier, haunted by the ghosts of his dead colleagues.
#3.3
Sapphire and Steel
2008
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. The Space Shuttle Aspirant is in a decaying orbit, its engines dead. Time is running out.
#3.4
Sapphire and Steel
2008
All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned. An abandoned shopping centre in the middle of the night. Is the journey at an end?