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This book took me a little by surprise. When I hear the term 'steampunk' I image trains, elaborate dinner parties with mad inventors, a duel with pistols, things along those kind of lines. What I found in this book was fun. There were mad scientist type characters, a sex crazed thief, a strange race of fish people, a mechanical violinist with human aspirations and a lame little Jack Russell. Needless to say I will be searching out more of Jeter's books.

This book centres on the son of a genius mechanic that builds crazy contraptions while maintaining a business as a watch maker. The son has none of his fathers flair for mechanics and gets himself embroiled in a plot to save the world from one of his fathers inventions. The book reads like a comedy version of Sherlock Holmes. Whether that is down to the time period that it is set, the fact that he has a man servant or the fact that he tries to do some investigating of his own I don't know.

I couldn't put this down once I started it, the characters were amazing. I loved the fact that Dower just stumbles from one crisis to the next with no clue of the reason for any of his problems. Each crisis a little more amusing and exciting than the last. This book won't win any awards for literacy brilliance but it made me laugh out loud and hope that someone see's their way to making this a film/tv series or even comic.