In a German town, long ago, lives a toothpuller’s boy called Klaus. It isn’t Klaus’s fault that he sees his master steal a diamond from the mouth of a dead man in Frau Drecht’s lodging house, or that Frau Drecht and her murderous son want it for themselves.
He has nothing to do with the Jesuit priest and his Aztec companion who turn up out of the blue looking for it, or the Professor of Anatomy who takes such a strange interest in it. No, Klaus doesn’t want any trouble.
But when he finds himself with the diamond in his pocket, things really can’t get much worse – that is, until the feathered man appears. Then they become a matter of life . . . and death.
- ISBN10 1849921644
- ISBN13 9781849921640
- Publish Date 5 September 2013 (first published 1 January 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint David Fickling Books
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 368
- Language English