Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (1996)

Pages: 115

The New Cut Gang is a group of urchins ranging from 6-year-old Sharkey Bob to 13-year-old Bridie Malone. They inhabit the streets around Lambeth Walk and the New Cut. In 1892, it is a place full of gangsters, bookies, pickpockets, swindlers, horse thieves and the occasional tentative policeman.

Fake coins are turning up all over Lambeth, and people are starting to get really angry. Then the police arrest Thunderbolt's father. Is he really the forger? The New Cut Gang are sure he's innocent and decide to turn detective to prove it.