By: Johnson, Catherine
Format: Paperback / softback
Published By: Walker Books Ltd
Date of Publication: 03/10/13
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781406340570
Dimensions in mm: 197 x 130 x 18
Description: ?_oGentlemen!?__ William McAdam addressed the room, a knife in each hand. ?_oYour watches, please! I guarantee you the fastest amputation ever performed anywhere in the world?_?__Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezra?_Ts knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. However, his world is turned on its head when a failed break-in at his master?_Ts house sets off a strange and disturbing series of events that involves grave robbing, body switching ?_? and murder. Sparky, persuasive young Loveday Finch, daughter of the late Mr Charles Finch, magician, employs Ezra to investigate her father?_Ts death - and there are marked similarities between his corpse and the others. The mystery takes Ezra and Loveday from the Operating Theatre at St Bart?_Ts to the desolate wasteland of Coldbath Fields; from the streets of Clerkenwell to the dark, damp vaults of Newgate Prison; and finally to the shadowy and forbidding Ottoman Embassy, which seems to be the key to it all?_?
Format: Paperback / softback
Published By: Walker Books Ltd
Date of Publication: 03/10/13
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781406340570
Dimensions in mm: 197 x 130 x 18
Description: ?_oGentlemen!?__ William McAdam addressed the room, a knife in each hand. ?_oYour watches, please! I guarantee you the fastest amputation ever performed anywhere in the world?_?__Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezra?_Ts knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. However, his world is turned on its head when a failed break-in at his master?_Ts house sets off a strange and disturbing series of events that involves grave robbing, body switching ?_? and murder. Sparky, persuasive young Loveday Finch, daughter of the late Mr Charles Finch, magician, employs Ezra to investigate her father?_Ts death - and there are marked similarities between his corpse and the others. The mystery takes Ezra and Loveday from the Operating Theatre at St Bart?_Ts to the desolate wasteland of Coldbath Fields; from the streets of Clerkenwell to the dark, damp vaults of Newgate Prison; and finally to the shadowy and forbidding Ottoman Embassy, which seems to be the key to it all?_?