Montmorency: Thief Liar Gentleman? (After Words)
by Eleanor Updale
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Author: Eleanor UpdaleEdition: Paperback
Published: 2006-05-01
ISBN: 0439856280
Number of pages: 240
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic
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Book Review: Montmorency is one criminal turned gentleman you won't soon forget!
Summary: 5 Stars
Montmorency is such a fascinating, well-written series--you must NOT miss any of these four books, and if you love them, please please please write to Eleanor Updale's publisher in London and tell her how much you want to read a fifth book, as her new editor is apparently undecided as of yet if there WILL be a fifth book! You will want to tear through every single page to get to the end of the fourth book, which leaves you hanging unpleasantly, but I'm sure things will turn out well in the fifth book! (Oh please let there be A FIFTH BOOK!)
Summary of Montmorency: Thief Liar Gentleman? (After Words)
Montmorency: thief, liar, gentleman?, a British import from debut author Eleanor Updale, is a smart, stylish antidote to the proliferation of Buffy novelizations masquerading as mysteries these days. In a London cellblock in 1875, career criminal Montmorency is serving time for burglary. Captured while fleeing police, Montmorency suffered several grievous wounds that attract the attention of a brilliant young doctor named Robert Farcett. When Dr. Farcett displays Montmorency's newly healed body before the membership of London's Scientific Society, Montmorency overhears a presentation on the city's new sewer system that will change his life forever. Once released from prison, Montmorency uses his knowledge of the underground tunnels to steal from some of London's wealthiest neighborhoods. But in order to enjoy his new riches, he must assume a dual lifestyle. By day he is Mr. Montmorency, a mysterious opera going gentleman who resides in one of the city's most affluent hotels. By night, he is drain-dwelling Scarper, a smelly character who keeps a room in a dirty boarding house. How long can he keep up this agonizing pretense before someone, perhaps even the good doctor, recognizes his scars and exposes him as a fraud?Middle school fans of John Bellairs, Lemony Snicket, and Philip Pullman, will delight in plowing through the cliff hanging pages of Montmorency. Updale's prose is clear and plot-driven, full of the kind of fascinating detail about the quirky Victorian thief's dual existence that young mystery readers adore. And, with a sequel coming in 2005, they won't groan too loudly at the wide open, although wholly satisfying ending. (Ages 10 to 14) --Jennifer Hubert
When a petty thief falls through a glass roof while fleeing from the police, it should have been the death of him. Instead, it marks the beginning of a whole new life. Soon he has become the most successful -- and elusive -- burglar in Victorian London, plotting daring raids and using London's new sewer system to escape. He adopts a dual existence to fit his new lifestyle, taking on the roles of a respectable, wealthy gentleman named Montmorency and his corrupt servant, Scarper.
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