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Updale, Eleanor
4 Reviews
(2)
4-6
With his WWI widow mother having trouble making ends meet, eleven-year-old scam artist Johnny places adverts for gullible newspaper readers. (Want your baby to stop wetting the bed? Send an SASE and one shilling for the answer.) He also unwittingly gets his mother charged with murder. The mystery-story plot moves convincingly and quickly, layered with thought-provoking questions about respect and civility.
Reviewer: Betty Carter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2011
(2)
YA
Lord George's shocking murder set the stage for this series entry, in which Montmorency and cohorts vow to exact revenge. The search for Lord George's killers continues over four countries and two continents, with identity and forgiveness recurring concerns. The dawn-of-the-twentieth-century setting is as fully realized as ever, and Updale's broadening cast constitutes a warm and encompassing family for her hero.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
July, 2007
(1)
YA
In his second book, Montmorency spirals into a drug addiction that promises to destroy him. This volume delivers plenty of mystery and intrigue through a compellingly flawed adult character searching as desperately for a sense of self as any adolescent protagonist. That search creates a literary journey filled with unpredictable events, a fast-moving plot, and a fascinating visit to the Victorian era.
Reviewer: Betty Carter
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2005
(2)
4-6
The criminal Montmorency, on display as an exhibit of Dr. Farcett's experimental surgical skill, hears a lecture on nineteenth-century London's new sewer system. After his release, Montmorency takes to the sewers, planning to use ill-gotten gains to fund the life of a gentleman. The suspenseful book's tension lies in Montmorency's meticulous preparations for his crime spree and his attempts to avoid giving himself away in polite society.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2004
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