num_pages: 297
description: When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him, he steals away on the back of a carriage and leaves behind the stinking City. He arrives in the dead of night at a remote village, where he crosses paths with the tall and limping figure of Joe Zabbidou - a pawnbroker with a difference. For Joe trades secrets, not goods, for cash.Employed as Joe's assistant, Ludlow records the villagers' fiendish confessions in an ancient leather-bound volume: The Black Book of Secrets. There's the gravedigger who has been resurrecting bodies; the butcher who made a mouse-meat pie for his bullying father, with fatal consequences; the wizened bookseller who went to murderous lengths to get her hands on a priceless tome.Ludlow longs to trust his mysterious master, but he senses Joe has much to hide. But then Ludlow Fitch has his own, very dark, secrets . . .
language: English
title: The Black Book of Secrets
titlecomplete: The Black Book of Secrets
genres: Historical, Fantasy, Mystery, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 5218
series: Tales From The Sinister City
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Waterstones Children's Book Prize, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Premi Protagonista Jove
category: Categoria 12-14 anys
publisher: MacMillan Children's Books