The Printer's Devil

Name: The Printer's Devil
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Paul Bajoria
ISBN: 9781470354206

Author: Paul Bajoria

Narrator: Katherine Kellgren

Unabridged: 9 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/15/2013

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

This entertaining novel is right at home alongside Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Leon Garfield's Smith. In Victorian London, 12-year-old orphan Mog Winter prints wanted posters about all the dangerous villains. When a brute named Cockburn escapes prison, the ink on the posters is barely dry before Mog gets caught up in the criminal underworld. Soon thieves, crooked schemers-even murderers-are hunting Mog, but he doesn't know why.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mandy on September 10, 2018

Absolutely loved this book! Great plot, characters and a real Dickensen feel to it. A lot of beautiful illustrations and a series of mysteries that kept me turning the pages. (One very unexpected!) I would highly recommend this book.......more

Goodreads review by Emily on July 12, 2015

Ok, I didn't finish the whole thing. I got to around page 265 so I read like 2/3 of it. I'm really surprised at my self, but I couldn't finish it because I just couldn't take the story or the characters seriously. Not after the line on page 7 that goes "I seemed to be absolutely hungry all the time......more

Goodreads review by Kate on April 16, 2013

Oh, this book. How I wanted to love it... but in the end, I just couldn't. The three stars (really more like two and a half) are for the wonderful, Dickensian way that a vaguely-past London is described, for the twists and turns the mystery takes. I was especially impressed with the genuine surprise......more