· Gooseberry book. Read 8 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. With the business of the Moonstone diamond finally laid to rest, Mr. · With the business of the Moonstone diamond finally laid to rest, Mr. Franklin Blake and his wife Rachel are now happily married, living in London, and blessed with a healthy baby daughter named Julia. Mr. Blake has taken his late father#;s seat in Parliament, and his party#;s. Octavius (Octopus, Gooseberry) helps solve a mystery involving a young Maharajah (kidnapped? missing?), the East India Company, the Kohinoor diamond, and various and sundry thieves, scoundrels and a few Royals.
Michael Gallagher. March 1 ·. This month's offer is a free download of Gooseberry: Octavius Guy The Case of the Thieving Maharajah (#1). Fourteen-year-old Gooseberry once helped solve the mystery of the Moonstone. Now fate is about to throw him a new case, sending him sleuthing round the Victorian capital once more. Michael Gallagher is the author of two series of novels set in Victorian times. "Send for Octavius Guy" chronicles the attempts of fourteen-year-old Gooseberry--reformed master pickpocket--to become a detective, aided and abetted by his ragtag bunch of friends. Gooseberry. por Michael Gallagher. Send for Octavius Guy (Book 1) ¡Gracias por compartir! Has enviado la siguiente calificación y reseña. Lo publicaremos en nuestro sitio después de haberla revisado.
Enter the Blakes’ lawyer’s office boy, Octavius Guy—better known as Gooseberry—who once helped the family bring the mystery of the Moonstone to a close. Join Gooseberry, the fourteen-year-old Victorian boy detective, as he and his ragtag bunch of friends descend into London’s demi-monde and underworld to ferret out the truth, while spending as much of his employer’s money as they can along the way!. Michael Gallagher’s week-by-week reflections on how the novel is progressing: November It calls Gooseberry “a fast-moving, rollicking and compelling. Where Collins was content to poke fun at some of his lower class characters for their idiosyncrasies, Gallagher uses Gooseberry to reveal the naïveté and selfishness of the aristocracy.
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