Smith

by Leon Garfield, Leon Garfield

1967Social life and customsMurderChildren and adultsRobbers and outlawsJuvenile fiction

4.0

Open Library

First lines

HE WAS CALLED SMITH and was twelve years old.

HE WAS CALLED SMITH and was twelve years old.

About this book

A young pickpocket in eighteenth century London takes a document he cannot read from a man's pocket and a moment later sees the man murdered by two men who want the document.

Themes & subjects

Social life and customsMurderChildren and adultsRobbers and outlawsJuvenile fictionFiction

First published 1967

Setting

EnglandGreat BritainLondon (England)18th century

About the author

Leon Garfield

14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996

Leon Garfield was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. Garfield's novels for children all have historical settings, mainly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The novels were greatly influenced by both Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson. Garfield wrote his first book, the pirate novel _Jack Holborn_, for adult readers, but an editor saw its potential as a children's novel and persuaded Garfield to adapt it for younger readers. His second book, _Devil-in-the-Fog_, was the first of several historical adventure novels, typically set late in the eighteenth century and featuring a character of …