Master Diplexito and Mr. Scant
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Oliver, the meek son of a wealthy British industrialist, discovers the identity of a notorious thief, a man who has been skillfully evading Scotland Yard and snatching priceless artifacts for sport: Mr. Scant, his family butler. After first fearing for his life, Oliver discovers Mr. Scant's secret within a secret: the butler's crimes are actually a series of strikes against an underground group of business tycoons trying to master black magic.
In the early 1900s, an English schoolboy and his criminal mastermind butler travel to Paris and then race to Shanghai to solve a dangerous kidnappng case and unravel a plot to attack the child emperor of China.
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.