Title: Highway robbery
Description: On a cold day in eightheenth-century England, a poor young boy agrees to watch a stranger's fine horse for a golden guinea but soon finds himself in a difficult situation when the king's guard appears and wants to use him as bait in their pursuit of a notorious highwayman.
Subjects: Turpin, Richard, 1706-1739, Adventure and adventurers, Horses, Robbers and outlaws, Juvenile fiction, Brigands and robbers, Fiction, Adventure stories, History, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Horses, fiction, Robbers and outlaws, fiction, Great britain, history, 18th century, fiction