Sawbones [electronic resource]
Johnson, Catherine2013
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"Gentlemen!" William McAdam addressed the room, a knife in each hand. "Your watches, please! I guarantee you the fastest amputation ever performed anywhere in the world..." Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezra's knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. However, his world is turned on its head when a failed break-in at his master's house sets off a strange and disturbing series of events that involves grave robbing, body switching ... and murder. Sparky, persuasive young Loveday Finch, daughter of the late Mr Charles Finch, magician, employs Ezra to investigate her father's death - and there are marked similarities between his corpse and the others. The mystery takes Ezra and Loveday from the Operating Theatre at St Bart's to the desolate wasteland of Coldbath Fields; from the streets of Clerkenwell to the dark, damp vaults of Newgate Prison; and finally to the shadowy and forbidding Ottoman Embassy, which seems to be the key to it all...
Main title:
Sawbones [electronic resource] / Catherine Johnson
Author:
Johnson, Catherine, AuthorKnipe, Royston, Other
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Walker Books, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
Reading grade level: 3-4
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Catherine Johnson is an award-winning writer of Welsh/African Caribbean descent, now living in Hastings in East Sussex. Her first novel for Walker, Sawbones, was shortlisted for the Salford and Rotherham Book Awards and won The Historical Association's Young Quills Award.
ISBN:
9781406349245
Language:
English
BRN:
2766600
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