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    A Pest Most Fiendish: A Tor.com Original
    A Pest Most Fiendish: A Tor.com Original
    A Pest Most Fiendish: A Tor.com Original
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    A Pest Most Fiendish: A Tor.com Original

    By Caighlan Smith

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    Miss Pippa Kipling and her automaton companion, the Porter, exterminate pests of the supernatural variety. What should be a typical job in your average haunted cavern soon derails in an inconveniently undead fashion. Even with the aid of her gadget collection and the Porter’s prowess, this task may prove fatal for Miss Kipling—or worse, rip her petticoat.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateNov 16, 2016
    ISBN9780765392244
    A Pest Most Fiendish: A Tor.com Original
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    Caighlan Smith

    Caighlan Smith writes all kinds of fantasy and is the author of the Surreality series. Her first published novel Hallow Hour was written when she was seventeen. An award-winning writer, Caighlan is studying English, Classics and Creative Writing at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She has written a dozen novels. The ‘C’ in her name is hard and the ‘gh’ is silent.

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    A Pest Most Fiendish - Caighlan Smith

    When Philippa Kennedy Kipling was informed of a very lucrative job through one of her many dubious contacts, she immediately implemented her trusty three-step plan. Step one: Do away with the competition. Jobs of a respectable wage were growing fewer in the rapidly industrializing kingdom. Underhanded methods were, on occasion, required to keep one out of the factories. Pippa would be keeping herself out of the factories. Oil stained the petticoat something awful.

    The competition, in this particular case, was rather easily disassembled. Pippa simply had her companion, the Porter, disassemble the enemy’s coach. Really, one ought not to leave one’s coach unattended whilst travelling, even if it is to see to a cry for help from the forest (a cry which may or may not have resembled Pippa’s own).

    Step one complete, Pippa and the Porter proceeded to step two: making friendly with the contractor. A Mr Bradbury, in this case. He greeted them on the threshold of the Banshee’s Dormitory. It was a rather spacious haunted cavern which, some believed, once hosted the court of the legendary Blood Fey, and was the spot wherein said Fey first crafted the realm-renowned torture serum, the

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