A review by srreid
Smith by Leon Garfield

4.0

The Huckleberry Finn of old London town, picks pockets, does what he likes, and looks out for his sisters. Smith is your typical unwashed toerag who minutes after picking a particularly ripe looking target witnesses that same individual being brutally murdered, with the perpetrators after the very thing Smith just pocketed. Turns out it's a letter, but Smith can't read, what is he to do?

Great character, shame it was so short, would love to have read more of his adventures, felt it slowed down a little too much towards the end.