Vita Marlowe is a Polio survivor with a crooked left foot and a Swiss Army knife. Do not underestimate her. Within seconds, she can see that Victor Sorrotore is an unscrupulous con man. He flat out stole her grieving grandfather's Hudson River castle. With tenacious gumption, Vita immediately concocts the plan to steal back what belongs to her ancestral family. However, the streets of 1920s Manhattan are not all that safe during Prohibition, especially for a British foreigner. So, Vita assembles a ragtag team of pickpockets and circus performers to mastermind the plan.

2018 Costa Children's Book Award, 2019 Foyles Children's Book of the Year, 2020 British Book of the Year Finalist – Children's Fiction.

Katherine Rundell is a bestselling author of award-winning children's novels. Charles Santoso has been drawing professionally for over fourteen years.

England. Originally published in English by Bloomsbury Children's Books in 2019. Published in the United States by Simon & Schuster in 2019.