title: The Complete Scarlet Traces Vol. 1
author: Ian Edginton
description: <b>Ian Edginton</b> is a <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author and multiple Eisner Award nominee. His recent titles include the green apocalypse saga <i>Hinterkind </i>for DC/Vertigo. <i>Steed </i>and <i>Mrs Peel </i>for BOOM, The steam and clock-punk series <i>Stickleback</i>, <i>Ampney Crucis Investigates </i>and <i>Brass Sun </i>for <i>2000 AD</i>. Game properties, <i>Dead Space: Liberation </i>and <i>The Evil Within </i>for Titan Books and the audio adventure <i>Torchwood: Army of One </i>for the BBC. He has adapted books by bestselling novelists Robert Muchamore (<i>CHERUBS</i>) and Childrens Laureate, Malorie Blackman (<i>NOUGHTS &amp; CROSSES</i>). In addition he has adapted the complete canon of Sherlock Holmes novels into a series of graphic novels for Self Made Hero, as well writing several volumes of Holmes apocrypha entitled <i>The Victorian Undead</i>. He lives and works in England.<br /> <br /><b>DIsraeli</b>: Under the pen name DIsraeli, Matt Brooker has been a comic artist since 1988. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with writer Ian Edginton, including <i>Leviathan, Kingdom of the Wicked, The War of the Worlds, Scarlet Traces, Leviathan </i>and <i>Batman</i>. Other career highlights include work on <i>Sandman</i>, collaborations with Warren Ellis, including <i>Lazarus Churchyard </i>and the cryptic <i>SVK</i>, and his colouring on the later <i>Miracleman </i>stories, to which hell be returning in 2015. Since 2003, hes been a regular contributor to <i>2000 AD</i>, mostly as series artist on <i>Stickleback </i>with Ian Edginton and <i>Low Life </i>with Rob Williams. His and Robs creator owned series, <i>Ordinary</i>, was published in the Megazine and will be available as a graphic novel in Autumn 2014. He lives in Nottingham, UK and wishes he had a cat.
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  # Austin
  
  
  ### A Sexton Brothers Novel
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Jeannine Colette
  
  
  ## Lauren Runow
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0004.html#3Q280-5bdc942e877b4ed9ac6e254106aaaa56)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0005.html#4OIQ0-5bdc942e877b4ed9ac6e254106aaaa56)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0006.html#5N3C0-5bdc942e877b4ed9ac6e254106aaaa56)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0007.html#6LJU0-5bdc942e877b4ed9ac6e254106aaaa56)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 5](part0008.html#7K4G0-5bdc942e877b4ed9ac6e254106aaaa56)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 6](part0009.html#8IL20-5bdc942e877b4ed9ac6e254106aaaa56)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 7](part0010.html#9H5K0-5bdc942e877b4ed9ac6e254106aaaa56)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 8](part0011.html#AFM60-5bdc942e877b4ed9ac6e254106aaaa56)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 9](part0012.html#BE6O0-5bdc942e877b4ed9ac6e254106aaaa56)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 10](part0013.html#CCNA0-5bdc942e877b4ed9ac6e254106aaaa56)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 11](part0014.html#DB7S0-5bdc942e877b4ed9ac6e254106aaaa56)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 12](part0015.html#E9OE0-5