Lessons from Underground

Description:

Mr. Scant and his protégé Oliver Diplexito are recruited by Scotland Yard to stop Aurelian Binns from stealing a diamond from the British Crown Jewels, selling it to a South African en route to America on the Titanic, and using the proceeds to fund a criminal secret society in France.

subjects: History,  Vigilantes,  Apprentices,  Robbers and outlaws,  Juvenile fiction,  Diamonds,  Titanic (Steamship),  Fiction,  Children's fiction,  Titanic (steamship), fiction,  Robbers and outlaws, fiction,  Apprentices, fiction,  South africa, fiction

Places: Cape Town (South Africa),  South Africa

Times: 20th century,  1909-1961