Reddit reviews The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (1) (A Burton & Swinburne Adventure)

I agree about guilty-pleasure cool. I read it because I enjoy it. But a lot of it is very dark. The Conn-Mann Chronicles series is deliberately envisioned as lighter fare. More like Gail Carriger than Mark Hodder.

I enjoyed The Strange Affair of Springheeled Jackby Mark Hodder. He has at least two other books featuring the same lead characters, but I haven't picked them up yet.

Steampunk Prime: A Vintage Steampunk Reader edited by Mike Ashley was quite good. He includes a blurb about the original authors' history and information about the original publication dates before each short story.

Mike Resnick's The Buntline Special: A Weird West Tale was really good. Apparently he's got another one out that I have yet to buy.

I've also got Tim Akers' The Horns of Ruin sitting on my shelf, but I haven't made the time to read through it. The summary on the back interesting enough for me to actually buy it.

There's actually a series of steampunk alternate-history books by Mark Hodder, starting with The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, revolving around this assassination attempt. In the books' world, the assassin originally failed, then succeeded after his far-distant descendant went back in time to try and stop his ancestor from becoming notorious for almost killing Queen Victoria. It gets crazier from there...

• The Strange Affair of Springed Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder
  
• The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man also by Mark Hodder
  
  Great books and superb covers.

i really liked this one along with a few others of his ive read!

Try this. Alternate history London.
https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Affair-Spring-Swinburne-Adventure/dp/1616142405

For setting and atmosphere, check out the Call of Cthulhu tabletop. I don't have a source for the rules atm, sorry, but here's a Critical Role 1-shot

Also, if you like reading novels, I recommend The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

And for listening pleasure and possible background music, Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera

Edit: wrong link