Mike Gagnon's Independent Reading

This book is set in the late 1800's in London. It starts by Montmorency stealing a jewel from a museum. He has been a thief for years, and is very good at it. While stealing this jewel, he is discovered and falls from a roof, and is knocked unconscious. Montmorency wakes up to a doctor doing tests on him. He is in jail, but every week he in released for shows on the medical work he had done to him, which was the most impressive work anyone had seen at the time. Doctor Farcett had done incisions, and they were spectacular. While in prison, Montmorency creates a brilliant plan for when he returns to society. He creates two characters... Montmorency and Scarper. Scarper is an everyday construction worker man, while Montmorency is rich and goes out on the town at night. He uses the sewer systems to steal from the richest people in London, then retreats to his crappy home as Scarper. Once he collects enough he distributes the goods to different jewelers and becomes rich for his second personality, Montmorency. While doing this he meets a man named Fox-Selwyn. He is a very wealthy man, who's father was once king of a different territory. By the time they are friends, Montmorency is in full affect, and Scarper is left behind. But tragedy strikes when Montmorency finds out that Fox-Selwyn is also close friends with Doctor Farcett, and is scared his secret of thieving may be called out.