Footsteps
Leon Garfield
Hardcover
(Doubleday, Oct. 1, 1980)
Unsettling words from his dying father set twelve-year-old William on a mission to eighteenth-century London where, in the course of searching for his father's mysterious business partner John Diamond, he encounters an odd assortment of characters, some of whom seem determined to kill him.In eighteenth-century England, William Jones, constantly plagued with guilt feelings over something his father did many years ago and hoping to redress the situation, sets out for London in search of a man named Alfred Diamond
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