The novel opens as the ship Bon Espoir goes down under a cloudless summer sky, and its survivors carry their secrets back to London. There the story gathers round No. Fifteen, Little Queer Street, where Mr Duck takes in lodgers, among them a clergyman and his son who swear like thieves once out of the landlady’s hearing, and where Topsey Turvey, Edward Marston and a cast of swindlers cross paths.
A crowded, colourful Victorian tale of London rogues from the journalist who wrote Christmas Day in the Workhouse. Download the free EPUB.