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      First published in Great Britain by

      HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2017

      HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd,

      HarperCollins Publishers

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      Text copyright © Justine Windsor 2017

      Illustrations copyright © Becka Moor 2017

      All rights reserved.

      Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

      Justine Windsor and Becka Moor assert the moral right to be identified as the author and illustrator of the work.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008183561

      Ebook Edition © ISBN: 9780008183578

      Version: 2017-07-04

       For Charlie and Nikki

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Chapter Seven: Cockroach Crunch

       Chapter Eight: Uncle Ebenezer’s Quill

       Chapter Nine: The Emerald Eye

       Chapter Ten: A Very Precise Death

       Chapter Eleven: A Mouthful of Dust

       Chapter Twelve: Golems and Murder

       Chapter Thirteen: London Smog

       Chapter Fourteen: O’Brien’s Midnight Circus

       Chapter Fifteen: A Den of Iniquity

       Chapter Sixteen: The Poodle That Barked in the Night

       Chapter Seventeen: Lucy Cracks the Case

       Chapter Eighteen: The Real Jerome Wormwood

       Chapter Nineteen: No Choice

       Chapter Twenty: Meeting Mortimer Thorne

       Chapter Twenty-One: Stone and Earth

       Chapter Twenty-Two: A Pact or Two

       Acknowledgements

       Keep Reading …

       Books by Justine Windsor

       About the Publisher

       PROLOGUE

      The graveyard was silent and deserted. An owl hooted from the great oak tree that grew next to the church. A fox slunk stealthily between the headstones, perhaps hunting for voles or on its way to raid the vicar’s henhouse. When the church gate creaked open, the fox froze and listened intently, sniffing the night air. A man crept into view, carrying a lantern in one hand and a spade in the other. A large bag was slung over his shoulder. The fox trotted silently away, melting into the dark of the moonless night. As for the man, he made his way over to two freshly dug graves. A cage of iron encased one of them and the man cursed softly under his breath when he saw it. But the other grave had no such protection. The man put his bag and his lantern down next to it, plunged his spade into the mound of soil and began to dig.

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       CHAPTER ONE

       A GRAVE AFFAIR

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