An Abbreviated Almanac: The Hounds of Winter

Prologue: Hounds to Scent

• Colonel Fleming
• The Digoenes Club
• Josephine Gabrielle Arceneaux
• Quentin Michael Humberstone

Chapter One: Hounds Cast

• A detailed wiki article of St. Pancras Railway station.
• An article on the modern Midland Grand, renamed St. Pancras Renaissance.
  • There are more pictures here with great captions.
  • Yet more pictures. Of special note in the photo gallery is the Midland Grand Hotel's Ladies' Smoking Room, reputed the first in Europe where a woman could smoke and not be considered vulgar. There is also mention of a Moroccan Tea Room to the left of the Grand Staircase stairwell, too.
• University of Bucharest
• Gheorghe Panculescu
  • And here, though translation is needed.
• Nitrocellulose commonly called Gun Cotton.
  • Paul Vieille, Developer of Smokeless Gunpowder, produced with Nitrocellulose.

Chapter Two: Initial Engagements

• Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazillian playboy, inventor and aviator.
• Russian Hussar, name as yet unknown

Chapter Three: A Cautious Waltz

• Hotel Imperial, Vienna, Austria. Strictly speaking, the Hotel Imperial was orginally built as a city palace and was not converted into a hotel until 1873, but that date has been moved up for fictional purposes.
• Rodika, a professional woman possessing useful skills and information

Chapter Four: Train of Events

• Russian Hussar, from Paris, as seen in Chapter Two: Initial Engagements, name as yet unknown
  
• Friedrich Piefke, a Prussian Agent, possibly tasked to follow Josephine and Quentin or Panculescu
  

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