INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Pullman, Philip

Two Crafty Criminals!: And How They Were Captured by the Daring Detectives of the New Cut Gang

(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Martin Brown. Readers have a dual romp with two bundled novellas, Thunderbolt's Waxwork and The Gas-Fitters' Ball, first published in the UK in the 1990s. Set in Victorian London, the stories feature a neighborhood band of children fancying themselves detectives. Both madcap adventures contain lots of characters and lots of plot, with all coming together in complicated, satisfying endings.

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