'Him what's born on the chime . . . he's the one what'll have communications with the devil.'
At the age of fourteen, 'chime-child' Peter Gannet is apprenticed to a locksmith in Covent Garden. But his desperate longing to escape from the insufferable adults around him and go to sea leads him into some dubious undertakings. Before long, the old ship's carpenter's dire prophecy comes true, for in the locksmith's workroom he meets a phantom with an empty sleeve.
Tense and atmospheric, this is a gripping thriller about ghosts, a wall of hands, envy, dishonesty and finally murder!
- ISBN10 1782950737
- ISBN13 9781782950738
- Publish Date 29 June 2015 (first published 28 April 1988)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Red Fox Classics
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English