| Description |
232 pages ; 19 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: 2003. |
| 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 -- 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. |
| 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 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. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 8.0 77128. |
| Subject |
Thieves -- England -- London -- Juvenile fiction.
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Multiple personality -- Juvenile fiction.
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Robbers and outlaws -- England -- London -- Fiction.
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Multiple personality -- Fiction.
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London (England) -- History -- 1800-1950 -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Children's stories.
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| ISBN |
0439580366 paperback |
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9780439580366 paperback |
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