The Death Collector
What starts as an ordinary picket-pocketing incident in Victorian London unites three teens against a madman. Eddie is the pickpocket; George is an assistant at the British Museum; Elizabeth has a nose for trouble--and all of them are being hunted by Augustus Lorimore. Lorimore is a sinister...
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What starts as an ordinary picket-pocketing incident in Victorian London unites three teens against a madman. Eddie is the pickpocket; George is an assistant at the British Museum; Elizabeth has a nose for trouble--and all of them are being hunted by Augustus Lorimore. Lorimore is a sinister factory owner, a villain bent on reanimating the dead, both humans and dinosaurs--and one of each is already terrorizing the streets of London. It's up to Eddie, George, and Elizabeth to stop Lorimore's monsters . . . or die trying.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781599901480 (159990148X)
Publish date: August 21st 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Series: Department of Unclassified Artefacts (#1)
There's one misstep in this book, and it happens fairly early on. I'll try to be vague to avoid spoilers. The identity of the Big Bad is kept secret from the characters, and presented as a secret to the readers, roughly 100 pages longer than it would take the vast majority of readers to figure it ou...
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