Charles Dickens gives the Ghost Club London Stories in Syndicate. He signs the Frye twins up to investigate London's hauntings and monsters, from Spring-heeled Jack to the most haunted house in the city, and nearly every case turns out to have a human culprit.
Dickens believes Londoners' love of the supernatural makes them easy prey for frauds, so he sends the twins to find the truth. The first case is Spring-heeled Jack, a cult leader in costume. Others include a run of thefts blamed on a demon, which leads to the hypnotist Enzio Capelli; Dickens has to re-hypnotise the twins after Capelli turns them into thieves.
At 50 Berkeley Square he recounts the ghost stories attached to the house. Children inside show the twins a hidden passage, and they find levers built to scare visitors and the missing owner, James Jasper, now mad and behind the haunting. Dickens decides it would make a good novel. In Dead Letters a junkyard carriage sends the twins into a drowsy dream about love letters, which they refuse to discuss.
By 1869 he was giving farewell readings across Britain and Ireland and writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood. A stroke killed him in June 1870, leaving the novel unfinished, and he was buried in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.
When Spring-heeled Jack returns he escapes the twins with a Leap of Faith. The club toasts its success in a pub, though Evie allows that something supernatural may exist after all.
Spring-heeled Jack
Spring-heeled Jack is the folklore figure behind two of Charles Dickens's Ghost Club cases. In the first, a cult leader in costume is attacking people in Lambeth; in the second, a far stranger Jack returns and leads you on a rooftop chase.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin helps Jacob destroy the Soothing Syrup distillery in Sequence 4 and then gives the Charles Darwin London Stories, in which the twins protect his work and reputation from Templar-backed attacks.
Clara O'Dea
Clara O'Dea is the young girl who runs London's network of street urchins and pickpockets. She trades her intelligence to Jacob and Evie Frye on one condition: that they free the children forced to work in the city's factories, which is the Child Liberation activity.
Evie Frye
Evie Frye is the second playable Assassin in Assassin's Creed Syndicate and the planner of the Frye twins. While Jacob tears down Starrick's businesses, her memories follow the hunt for a Shroud of Eden across London and her rivalry with the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne. She is also the playable lead of the 1888 Jack the Ripper story.