Crime, corruption, and even terrorism have gripped the city of London. Not even the detective inspectors of New Scotland Yard are to be trusted. Finding himself unable to watch passively as his foul nemesis, Rene Papineau, wreaks havok on the city, Professor Grim decides he must stand up and fight for what he believes is right. The Thankless Third sees the professor transformed from his comfortable role as mad scientist and inventor, to a costume-wearing hero known as the Phantom of Vigilance. Wielding a gadget-laden crime-fighting ensemble, the professor stalks the rooftops of London...

It was on a bitterly foggy and misty morning that I met my friend, Theophilus Grim, at a desolate, crooked cobblestone street called Backbone Lane, which was located in the Whitechapel district of London. The worst kinds of common lodging houses and rookeries crowded the dirty, narrow street, accommodating a good number of London's most unfortunate and despondent souls ... The adventure continues as Professor Grim unveils more incredible inventions, and the mysterious, tarpaulin-covered project in Grim's hangar room is finally revealed. The brewing conflict with Grim's greatest nemesis, Count...

"If you like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle (as I do), you will probably enjoy Chumbles and Grim. The stories, while being completely original, are clearly an affectionate nod to Holmes and Watson. Chumbles and Grim are not so much mysteries as adventure stories though, with a lot of wacky physical comedy and character humor thrown in, which I very much enjoyed." --Daniel C. It was quite by chance that I first met the well-known scientist and inventor, Theophilus Grim, on a brisk and beautiful October morning in 1890. I had, of course, heard of Professor Grim prior to that...