The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel

“A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred

Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a “mudlark,” he spen…

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