Gentlemen! William McAdam addressed the room, a knife in each hand. Your watches, please! I guarantee you the fastest amputation ever performed anywhere in the worldSixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezras 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 masters 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 fathers death - and there are marked similarities between his corpse and the others. The mystery takes Ezra and Loveday from the Operating Theatre at St Barts 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

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book has been graded for interest at 12 years.

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published in 2013 by Walker Books Ltd .

Catherine R. Johnson is Jamaican/Welsh and is the author of the recently published In Black and White. She lives in London.