A YA Victorian ‘crime caper’ that reimagines the early life of Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis. James Arthur Moray is nineteen, an autodidact, intellectually voracious, extremely ambitious, and increasingly ruthless. His real name is James Arthur Moray but as he begins to reinvent himself, the local good-time girls give him the polari nickname of James Morry-Arty Then there’s Gerard John Dawkins aka Dodger, lately returned to London, eighteen now and looking to make his way in the world, he’s tough and world-weary but with a soft-centre. Add pre-Raphaelite artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, socially-mobile models like Annie Miller, a dash of Wild Bill Hickok and an attempt to rob the bank of England and you have a Victorian Rude-Boy adventure story featuring grime, crime, smog, the stinking Thames, dirty back lanes, a mishmash of culture, history and fiction, lewd models, crazy artists, languid ladies, and bobbies on the beat chasing after rapscallions, rascals and criminals.