By F. E. Higgins
ISBN-10: 0330471538
ISBN-13: 9780330471534
ISBN-10: 1405089792
ISBN-13: 9781405089791
When Ludlow Fitch's mom and dad cruelly betray him, he steals away at the again of a carriage and leaves at the back of the stinking urban. He arrives at the hours of darkness at a distant village, the place he crosses paths with the tall and limping determine of Joe Zabbidou - a pawnbroker with a distinction. For Joe trades secrets and techniques, no longer items, for cash.
Ludlow is hired to checklist the villagers' fiendish confessions within the Black e-book of secrets and techniques. Bodysnatching; thievery; homicide. the folk of Pagus Parvus have a lot to conceal. yet is Ludlow Fitch able to free up his personal skeletons? and should he ever discover ways to belief his mysterious master?
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I had not thought they would last so long. For at least a half-mile they chased me down the uncobbled narrow alleys and the filthy streets, tripping over bodies and avoiding snatching hands, all the way to the river. Every time I looked back they seemed to be closer. I knew what would happen if they caught me again. The ache in my bleeding jaw was all the proof I needed. By the time I staggered on to the bridge I was barely able to hold myself upright. Halfway across I saw a carriage outside the Nimble Finger.
There he drank wine and beer, smoked fat cigars and played cards until the early hours with a motley bunch of fellows: thieves and gamblers, resurrectionists and undoubtedly a murderer or two. Although he would never admit it, he felt quite at home in the Nimble Finger. Jeremiah groaned again when he remembered he had lost a considerable sum of money at the card table. There舗s nothing for it, he thought. The rents舗ll have to go up. Jeremiah liked simple solutions to problems, and rent increases seemed to solve most of his.
Good health,舗 he toasted. Obadiah took a tentative sip from his glass, and then another longer one. Spirits were not his usual tipple and he舗d never tasted one of this calibre. He savoured the sensation of warmth as the alcohol ran down the back of his throat. Feeling his knotted shoulders relaxing, he leaned back into the chair. 舗 he asked. This wasn舗t what he planned to say, but it was what came out. 舖Because you need help,舗 replied Joe. 舗 Joe nodded and leaned over. 舖When I look at you, Obadiah, I see a man who has a secret.