This—as only Norman Collins can tell it—is the story of Stanley Pitts, a contracts filing clerk in the Admiralty, a small man—small in stature, small in ambition and achievement, happy in his work, an
Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a "mudlark," he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He's being hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, and a nastier m
