Young Stephen is sent to live with Grandfather Nat, publican of the Hole in the Wall on the river’s edge at Wapping and owner of a little wharf on the Lea. From the bar parlour the boy watches a robbery, a killing and a hunt for stolen money draw thieves, crimps and police around the house, his own chapters alternating with scenes in Blue Gate and the Highway.
A dark, tightly made East End thriller from the author of A Child of the Jago, rich in the river life of 1860s London. Download the free EPUB.