Pickpockets Apprentice - Sheri Cobb South
Category: Mystery
Narrator: Joel Froomkin
Tags: Mystery, Short Story, Historical Fiction
Pickpockets Apprentice By: Sheri Cobb South Narrated by: Joel Froomkin Series: John Pickett Mysteries, Book 0.5 Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date: 16-09-2016 Language: English Publisher: Sheri Cobb South, When magistrate Patrick Colquhoun orders a habitual thief and neer-do-well transported to Botany Bay, he doesnt realize a 14-year-old boy has been left behind to follow in his fathers footsteps - not until young John Pickett is hauled into Bow Street for stealing an apple from the produce market at Covent Garden., Feeling to some extent responsible for the boy, Mr. Colquhoun prevails upon Elias Granger, a prosperous coal merchant, to take him on as an apprentice. For the next five years, John Pickett hauls coal in exchange for room and board. The work is dirty and hard, but the drudgery is lightened by the occasional deliveries to Bow Street, where Mr. Colquhoun usually tosses Pickett a coin for his pains. An even more pleasant diversion exists in the form of
