Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a wily old crook named Sarah Pickles—until she betrayed him. Now Jem wants revenge, but first he needs a new job. Luckily Alfred the bogler, the man who kills the child-eating monsters that hide in the shadows of Victorian London, needs a new apprentice. As more and more orphans disappear under mysterious circumstances, Alfred, Jem, and Birdie find themselves waging an underground war in a city where science clashes with superstition and monsters lurk in every alley.
- ISBN: 9780544087477
- Author: Jinks, Catherine
- Illustrator: Watts, Sarah
- Published: 2015 , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Themes: Apprentices, History, Monsters, Orphans
- Descriptors: England (UK), Europe, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14)
- No. of pages: 336