The good thieves /

By: Rundell, Katherine [author.]Contributor(s): Saunders, Matt (Illustrator) [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2019Description: 322 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781408854891 (hbk.) :Subject(s): New York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Children's stories. | Detective and mystery stories. | Fiction 9+. | Adventure. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing Jack's spirit is broken, Vita is desperate to make him happy again, so she devises a plan to outwit his enemies and recover his home. She finds a young pickpocket, working the streets of the city. And, nearby, two boys with highly unusual skills and secrets of their own are about to be pulled into her lawless, death-defying plan.
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Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing Jack's spirit is broken, Vita is desperate to make him happy again, so she devises a plan to outwit his enemies and recover his home. She finds a young pickpocket, working the streets of the city. And, nearby, two boys with highly unusual skills and secrets of their own are about to be pulled into her lawless, death-defying plan.