Recommended by Darla D from Books and Other Thoughts – I knew I had to read this when she said “dinosaurs” and “Victorian”, and then she carried right on and said “street urchin” and “vicar’s daughter” and “clock-maker”, which is not totally unlike Ella saying “Warning, it’s very Gothic” about Blackbriar. I am leaving for a fantastic and glorious vacation in London (don’t go anywhere, London, I am coming back to you soon!), so I had collected all my books together to return to the library before I left (I know, right?). And still I could not return them until I had read The Death Collector.
Essentially, a nice clock-maker called George teams up with street urchin Eddie and vicar’s daughter Liz to discover what is up with two mysterious deaths at the British Museum. There are automatons (hahaha, that word is funny), there are corpses with dinosaur bones inside. There is intrigue! There is deception! Intrigue and deception! Kids’ books are fun for Jenny! I really found The Death Collector entertaining, and I didn’t want to leave the country without finishing it. And if the characterization was the tiniest bit limited, the plot was fun and included dinosaur eggs, so I’m at peace with it.
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Books and Other Thoughts
bookshelves of doom
Washington Post on the audio book