Tom Wasp and the Newgate knocker
By: Amy Myers
Series: Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice; Tom Wasp series -- no. 2
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781410431899
Subjects: Large type books; Fiction; History
Description: When chimney sweep Tom Wasp visits his friend Eliza Hogg in Newgate Prison in January 1863, on the day before she is due to be hanged, he is surprised to be given the only thing of value she possesses and even more surprised when that turns out to be a pawn ticket. Tom's apprentice, twelve-year-old Ned, is disappointed that the pawned item is only a scruffy sailor doll. Some days later, however, they find its hidden secret ...