Gentlemen's

The first word in the name of Gentlemen's Breakfast, a vintage-eyewear store in Los Angeles, was misspelled as Gentleman's in the Take Monday Off travel feature about Los Angeles in Saturday's Off Duty section.

Corrections & Amplifications 2012

In Mendoza in Hollywood we're introduced to Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, a dashing and mysterious figure who is ultimately revealed to be a secret agent for the Gentlemen's Speculative Society.

REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker 2009

But there are places a prostitute can go where the agents of the Gentlemen's Speculative Society can't, and there are many secrets and confidences which the "clients" of Nell Gwynne's are willing to whisper to the ladies who share their beds, never imagining the cost.

REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker 2009

One name by which this group is known is the Gentlemen's Speculative Society.

REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker 2009

But he quickly learns that Redking's serves only as a cover for a shadowy organization which dates back to antiquity, devoted to the betterment of mankind and society through the development of science and technology-the Gentlemen's Speculative Society.

REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker 2009

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: The "sister" organization to the Gentlemen's Speculative Society are the ladies of Nell Gwynne's, an exclusive high-end brothel where all of the working girls are also superspies.

REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker 2009

“Well, the guys offered me a choice from the smorgasbord of Boston's many fine fleshpots—The First Amendment, Gentlemen's VIP Lounge III, The Kit Kat Klub.”

My Night With the All-College Girl Revue Con Chapman 2012

Bell-Fairfax and his end (and his life beyond his death) are central to the later Company novels, but we don't hear much more of the Victorian-era Gentlemen's Speculative Society.

REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker 2009

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: In Victorian England, Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax is the most promising young agent of the Gentlemen's Speculative Society-a secretive organization of scientists and thinkers whose previous members have included Archimedes, da Vinci, and John Dee.

September 2009 2009

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: In Victorian England, Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax is the most promising young agent of the Gentlemen's Speculative Society-a secretive organization of scientists and thinkers whose previous members have included Archimedes, da Vinci, and John Dee.

REVIEW: Not Less Than Gods and The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker 2009