The Dead Gentleman
The Dead Gentleman
The Dead Gentleman
Matthew Cody
A many-worlds adventure novel from the acclaimed author of Powerless!   The Dead Gentleman is a wild ride between parallel New York City timestreams—1901 and today. Eleven-year-old Tommy Learner is a street orphan and an unlikely protégé of the Explorers, a secret group dedicated to exploring portals—the hidden doorways to other worlds. But in the basement of an old hotel, his world collides with that of modern-day Jezebel Lemon. Now, Jezebel and Tommy must thwart the Dead Gentleman, a legendary villain whose last unconquered world is our own planet Earth, a realm where the dead stay dead—for now. Can two kids put an end to this ancient evil and his legions of Grave Walkers?

Book Details

Genre: 

  • Fantasy

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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Tommy is an orphan in the nineteenth century. You wouldn't expect that he's a member of the Explorers' Society. TheExplorers' Society is a group of people that study and explore portals, or doorways to other worlds.During investigating a hotel, Tommy is trapped and betrayed. More than a hundred years later, his ghost appears in the hotel. Tommy warn Jezebel Lemon, a normal 12 year old girl. SoonTommy the ghost and Jezebel are up against the notorious Dead Gentleman. Can this ghost and this girl defeat him?

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