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by Kenny McKendry (Author), Leon Garfield (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Puffin Classics (25 Nov 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141319712
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141319711
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 33,157 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Young Smith was a pickpocket - a very accomplished one. But one day his pick-pocketing was to lead him into a sinister and dangerous web of murder, intrigue and betrayal.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Dickens - shorter and more exciting, 21 Feb 2009
By Jane Ponders (Dorset, England) - See all my reviews
"He was called Smith and was twelve years old. Which, in itself, was a marvel; for it seemed as if the smallpox, the consumption, brain-fever, gaol-fever and even the hangman's rope had given him a wide berth for fear of catching something. Or else they weren't quick enough."

This is our introduction to Smith, a pickpocket, and the 18th Century London in which he lives.

The story begins with Smith picking the pockets of a 'country gentleman', only then to witness that gentlemen being murdered, for something he was thought to be carrying. But Smith now has that something, a document, and he sets out to learn to read it, and to solve the mystery of the murdered gentleman, while avoiding the killers who are on his trail.

There is an array of charaters - conspiring lawyers, a blind magistrate, murderous villains, highway men - and as with Dickens, places become characters too - Newgate Gaol, the City of London itself. The language is a wonder, to be relished - evocative, compelling, and always humourous - lightly ironic or downright comic. Rather like Smith himself.
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0 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars So mind numbingly BORING!!!, 2 Jan 2009
I've had to read this novel with my son who's been assigned it at school and I've found it hard going. The narrative strategy is littered with unnecessary descriptions and pointless repetitions to the extent that the plot becomes secondary. Although the novel was published in 1968, it is set in the 18thc. The author has attempted to render the language and spelling of 18thc. England and has only partially succeeded in doing so. For example, the use of capital letters for nouns is a typical feature of the period's style but, in this novel, this is used inconsistently; likewise with the use of dialects--some characters such as the eponymous hero speak in cockney slang but this is only done when the author "remembers" to do so. The plot is fairly interesting and the characterisation is adequate. The relationship between Magistrate and Smith is possibly the most interesting feature of the novel, but it is not interesting enough to hold our attention. On the whole, the novel is incredibly boring with long, tedious, over-detailed passages of landscape descriptions which do not always contribute to the action....My advice is: DO NOT READ THIS NOVEL UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO.....Try Moll Flanders or the more contemporary Fingersmith...so much better!
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