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The Diamond of Drury Lane

by Julia Golding Book 1 in the Cat Royal series.

First published 2006

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4.1(4,348)

London, January 1790. Cat Royal has grown up among actors, musicians and stagehands at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. When the theatre owner entrusts her with a secret connected to a hidden diamond, Cat becomes the only person who knows where several dangerous men believe a fortune has been concealed.

Riots, street gangs and the arrival of a young aristocrat draw her beyond the safety of the playhouse. Cat must decide which adults deserve her trust while protecting the theatre that serves as her home and solving a mystery in which performance and disguise are as useful as evidence.

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Georgian London1714–1837 CE Georgian Crime and the Bloody Code1714–1837 CE

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Children’s & Young Adult Fiction Coming-of-Age Fiction Crime & Mystery Historical Thriller Social & Domestic Fiction

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan1751–1816

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