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The Scandalous Life of the Lawless Sisters (Criminally illustrated with what was to hand)
The Scandalous Life of the Lawless Sisters (Criminally illustrated with what was to hand)
Philip Ardagh
The Scandalous Life of the Lawless Sisters (Criminally illustrated with what was to hand), by Philip Ardagh. An outrageous adventure disgracefully told . . .
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Format
Hardback
ISBN
9780571239047
Date Published
06.11.2008
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Summary
In The Not-So-Very-Nice Goings-On at Victoria Lodge, Philip Ardagh uncovered skulduggery of the murkiest kind lurking within the seemingly innocent illustrations of The Girls’ Own Paper. In The Silly Side of Sherlock Holmes he created ‘A Brand New Adventure Using A Bunch of Old Pictures’ from the Strand Magazine. Now, in The Scandalous Life of the Lawless Sisters, he has exposed the antics of one of the Victorian underworld’s most notorious and feared all-female gangs by applying new captions to pictures from Punch of 1880.
PhilipArdagh
Philip Ardagh, whose very first Grubtown Tale won him the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, is author of over 100 books including the award-winning Eddie Dickens adventures, currently in over 30 languages. He wrote BBC radio’s first truly interactive radio drama, collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney on his first children’s book and is a ‘regularly irregular’ reviewer of children’s books for…
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