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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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