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Montmorency : thief, liar, gentleman?
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Montmorency : thief, liar, gentleman?

Author: Eleanor Updale
Publisher: New York : Scholastic, 2005, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself. When a petty thief falls through a glass roof while fleeing from the police, it should have been the death of him. Instead, it marks the beginning of a whole  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Children's stories
Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Eleanor Updale
ISBN: 0439580366 9780439580366 9781417699803 1417699809
OCLC Number: 60403130
Notes: Originally published: 2003.
Description: 232 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents: 1875: Bloody beginning --
Sir Joseph Bazalgette --
Planning --
Prison life --
Measuring up --
Farcett's house --
Wall --
Montmorency and Scarper --
Release --
Into London --
First try --
First job --
Flushers --
Paper --
Moving on --
Marimion hotel --
Resident guest --
Cissie --
Mr. Lyons --
At the Hatter's --
In the pub --
Sorted --
La Traviata --
Flushed out? --
Trial --
Back to the society --
Horror underground --
Struggling home --
Invalids --
Drama --
Fox-Selwyn and the doctor --
Bargles Club --
At the races --
Fox-Selwyn and the Mauramanians --
Scouting --
Into the fortress --
Dinner --
Reporting back --
Reparations.
Responsibility: Eleanor Updale.

Abstract:

In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself. When a petty thief falls through a glass roof while fleeing from the police, it should have been the death of him. Instead, it marks the beginning of a whole new life. Soon he has become the most successful and elusive burglar in Victorian London, plotting daring raids and using London's new sewer system to escape. He adopts a dual existence to fit his new lifestyle, taking on the roles of a respectable, wealthy gentleman named Montmorency and his corrupt servant, Scarper.

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