Publisher's Synopsis
The second amazing adventure featuring Montmorency, read by Stephen Fry. Five years after giving up his life of crime in the sewers, Montmorency is back in London. But his evil alter ego, Scarper, is back too. His old friend and fellow government agent, Lord George Fox-Selwyn, fights to rescue him from disaster, and risks calling in Montmorency's prison doctor, Robert Farcett, to help. However, what should be a rest on a Scottish island throws up another mystery, with the discovery of a row of tiny graves... As Montmorency struggles to regain his health, he is called back to London, where unexplained bomb blasts have reduced the government to despair. Can he and Fox-Selwyn catch the bombers? Can Doctor Farcett find out why the babies have died? And will Montmorency be able to return to life at the Marimion hotel without falling back into his old ways? In this second Montmorency adventure, Eleanor Updale follows her flawed hero and his friends from the city to the grand estates of Scotland, to a distant isle and back again. Intrigue, humour and suspense combine in this compelling historical thriller.;The first book in the series, "Montmorency", won a Blue Peter Book Award in 'The Book I Couldn't Put Down' category.
