Arthur Morrison

The hole in the wall (1902) By Arthur Morrison

This is one of the most gripping adventure stories ever written. Stephen Kemp goes to live with his mysterious grandfather after his mother's death, and is gradually drawn into the seedy world which Captain Nat Kemp inhabits. Morrison brilliantly conveys the child's sharp observation of all that goes on around him, and builds up portrait of the London East End he himself may have known as a boy