The Camberwell Raid

Adams Family Saga #10

by Mary Jane Staples

There was a double wedding planned in Walworth. Sally Brown was marrying Horace Cooper, and her brother, Freddy, was at last getting hitched to his childhood sweetheart, Cassie Ford. But the wedding wasn't the only thing being planned, for Ginger Carstairs and Dusty Miller were working out a bank robbery and, unbeknown to the inhabitants of Walworth and Denmark Hill, both Freddy Brown and the Adams family were to be deeply involved and put in considerable danger.

It took much ingenuity on Boots's part to come up with a scheme that would foil the plans of the raiders. And all this was happening at a time when Boots had other worries in his life, and when the unity of his own little family was being threatened.

Genres: Fiction

322 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 5, 1996

About the author

Mary Jane Staples is a pseudonym used by British author Reginald Thomas Staples (1911-2005). He is also published under the name Robert Tyler Stevens, R.T. Stevens, and James Sinclair.

Reviews

[Sheila · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Camberwell Raid

Good book, read very easily and continuing the saga of the Adams Family. Really enjoying this series of books, although I keep getting confused about which order to read them in.

[Jazz Holland · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I ran out of books to read on the ward I was a patient on, this was the only option. It was slow, but picked up pace. It wasn’t terrible, but set in the 1930s & published late 1990s so would not be a book many would choose to pick up now.

[Jennsie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a continuation of the series featuring the Adams family in south London. The original characters and their children are back. The plot of the book features on a bank robbery. I enjoyed the story, but I felt it could have had more substance. The stories read quickly.

[wendy.knight · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another brilliant story that makes you think you live with the characters

Brilliant saga continues to make you feel
Ike you are living in the east end and part of the adams clan

[Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not Staples' best. This is pretty formulaic. Double wedding (why double?), criminals threaten some of the Adams family, the Jewish rag and bone man takes the happy couples to church, and somebody is of course pregnant. Horace marries somebody, but poor old Effel has about one mention, and she doesn't even speak directly. Not even enough sparkle in the banter. The issue with Rosie's father is given a lot of play but never resolved. Too many characters, too many loose threads.
Very much a transitional episode.