Deze serie vertelt de buitengewone avonturen van een meesterdief die zich begeeft in de ruige onderwereld van het Victoriaanse Londen. Na een ogenschijnlijk kleine diefstal wordt onze protagonist meegesleept in een wereld van koninklijke complotten en spionage. Diep ondergedompeld in de geheimen van de stad, moet hij leren om sluwheid en loyaliteit in evenwicht te brengen. Duik in een spannende wereld vol intriges, waar het lot van een rijk op het spel staat.
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself. Suggested level: secondary.
After twenty years as a gentleman, Montmorency is glad to be free of Scarper, his wretched alter-ego, but when a young friend is caught in the middle of a murderous political plot, Montmorency may have no choice but to call upon Scarper for help.
An explosion in London raises questions of accident or foul play, while mysterious child deaths occur on a remote Scottish island. Montmorency must unravel these mysteries, all while facing his own personal demons.
Assassination. Disease. War. The nineteenth-century draws to an agonised end. A terrorist plot threatens Europe and Montmorency and his friends must fight itndercover. But with loyalties divided and convictions tested, how can they know who to trust
Is a criminal mastermind on the loose? Montmorency and his friends are determined to hunt down the terrorists who wrecked their lives. Their search takes them to Italy, Paris and finally back to America, where Montmorency becomes embroiled in an attempt to prevent the assassination of none other than the President of the United States...