This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

This book was published 2005 by Turtleback Books .

Philip Kerr is the New York Times bestselling author of nine Bernie Gunther novels and several standalone thrillers. His book If the Dead Rise Not won the CWA Ellis Peters Award for Best Historical Crime Novel and Spain's RBA International Prize for Crime Writing. He is also a children's author of the seven volume Children of the Lamp series, translated into 30 languages and in development with Paramount. Kerr has written for The Sunday Times, the Evening Standard and the New Statesman. He lives in London.