The third-floor room of Mrs. Marbles boarding house isn't much, but in Victorian London, few can afford to have even moderately high standards. 

Can Elizabeth and Berty withstand the tests of flirting seamstresses, fogged-up mirrors, persistent ghosts, and a rainy November water crisis? 

As 1879 prepares to hand its sputtering torch to an optimistic and unsuspecting 1880, it's a serious case of out of the frying pan and into the fire, which, miserable weather considered, probably sounds quite good. 

And later, much later, will James escape the gruesome clutches of a new, unsavory pickle?

These questions answered and more! in this installment of The Carnival Keepers.