Title: Crooked Heart
Description: In WWII England, ten year old evacuee Neil teams up with a grifting widow, and the two of them begin a moderately successful line in small scams.  Unfortunately they have competition - there are other entrepreneurs who regard the locals as their rightful prey, and soon German bombs are the least of Neil's troubles.
Subjects: History, World War, 1939-1945, Swindlers and swindling, Orphans, Widows, Fiction, New York Times reviewed, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: London
Time periods: 1940s, WWII