- Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Children's stories
Simon, the foundling from *The Wolves of Willoughby Chase*, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked crew's fiendish caper to overthrow the good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea.
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Classical in form, resolved, plot-driven and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Joan Aiken
- First published
- June 1940
- Pages
- 246
- Publisher
- Vintage Children's Classics, Laurel Leaf, Doubleday
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780099573661
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“On a fine warm evening in late summer, over a hundred years ago, a boy might have been seen leading a donkey across Southwark Bridge in the city of London.”
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. - Wikipedia
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