Montmorency: Thief Liar Gentleman? (After Words)
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Montmorency: thief, liar, gentleman?, a British import from debut author Eleanor Updale, is a smart, stylish antidote to the proliferation of Buffy novelizations masquerading as mysteries these days. In a London cellblock in 1875, career criminal Montmorency is serving time for burglary. Captured while fleeing police, Montmorency suffered several grievous wounds that attract the attention of a brilliant young doctor named Robert Farcett. When Dr. Farcett displays Montmorency's newly healed body before the membership of London's Scientific Society, Montmorency overhears a presentation on the city's new sewer system that will change his life forever. Once released from prison, Montmorency uses his knowledge of the underground tunnels to steal from some of London's wealthiest neighborhoods. But in order to enjoy his new riches, he must assume a dual lifestyle. By day he is Mr. Montmorency, a mysterious opera going gentleman who resides in one of the city's most affluent hotels. By night, he is drain-dwelling Scarper, a smelly character who keeps a room in a dirty boarding house. How long can he keep up this agonizing pretense before someone, perhaps even the good doctor, recognizes his scars and exposes him as a fraud? Middle school fans of John Bellairs, Lemony Snicket, and Philip Pullman, will delight in plowing through the cliff hanging pages of Montmorency. Updale's prose is clear and plot-driven, full of the kind of fascinating detail about the quirky Victorian thief's dual existence that young mystery readers adore. And, with a sequel coming in 2005, they won't groan too loudly at the wide open, although wholly satisfying ending. (Ages 10 to 14) --Jennifer Hubert |
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| "Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman, written by debut author Eleanor Updale, is a completely original novel about the life of a criminal in London, 1875. After falling through a sky roof of a warehouse while trying to escape from the police, Prisoner 493 is sentenced to jail, with the exception of the very frequent visits to Doctor Robert Farccett who tries to repair Prisoner 493 from his long fall. 493 is burdened living life in a jail cell with horrendous living conditions until two years later when he is released and has to live on his own. Staying in a hideous hotel and going by the name Scarper, 493 figures out a plan to earn his living by stealing valuable products and escaping through the sewers. He then starts his other life as the rich gentleman Montmorency that lives in the fabulous Marimion Hotel going to the opera every weekend until one of his new rich friends want him to try and sneak into a country's government building and gather some information. Now Montmorency has to decide whether to help his friend, which would change his life forever and can make it possibly worse, or he can keep on living the way he is. Eleanor Updale thrusts handcuffs on the readers, hooking them in whole time. With Montmorency being her first novel, she does an outstandingly good job describing scenes but still lets the readers use their imagination through the suspense and mystery. Updale uses vocabulary that helps the reader fly through the story even faster with the excellent plotline. Telling it in third person, Updale informs the readers with the whole story in all aspects and tells the reader what the secondary characters are thinking. Any reader from ages 10 and up who loves suspense and historical fiction should read this novel. The reader's see that even being rich, doesn't make every thing perfect. |
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