Five years after giving up his life of crime Montmorency is back in London. But Scarper is back too, pulling him into a dark underground world. His old friend Lord George Fox-Selwyn fights to rescue him from disaster, and risks calling
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? How far can they bend the rules and still stay on the side of good? 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?
Ages: 9-12
