Master Crook's Crime Academy is a 4-part crime series by Terry Deary. The saga is set in the Victorian Era - 1837, and follows the adventures of Smiff Smith and his companion; the story arc being the misdeeds of juvenile felons and the mystery of Master Crook's identity. The prime suspect is Mr Dreep, but the author provides evidence suggesting otherwise. The series has also been adapted into an animated TV show, which has an ‘Oliver Twist’ style setting, and is set at the time the first police officers were introduced to England. The animation style has been describes as ‘Ice Age’ meets ‘Tim Burton’. Terry is in discussions to turn the books into an international animated film series .
Read more about Master Crook's Crime Academy: Book Series, Plot, Critical Response
Famous quotes containing the words master, crime and/or academy:
“The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls
Are their males’ subjects and at their controls:
Man, more divine, the master of all these,
Lord of the wide world and wild watery seas,
Indued with intellectual sense and souls,
Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls,
Are masters to their females, and their lords:
Then let your will attend on their accords.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“After all, crime is only a lefthanded form of human endeavor.”
—John Huston (1906–1987)
“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)