Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, his knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. But his world is turned upside down when a failed break-in at his master’s house sets off a strange, disturbing chain of events involving grave robbing, body switching… and murder. Sparky, persuasive young Loveday Finch, daughter of the late magician Mr Charles Finch, employs Ezra to investigate her father’s death, having noticed marked similarities between his corpse and the others. The mystery takes Ezra and Loveday from the Operating Theatre at St Bart’s 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, forbidding Ottoman Embassy, which seems to hold the key to it all. “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 world…”
ISBN 13: 9781406340570
Author: Catherine Johnson
