The Crystal Prison
core novel 1989 The Deptford Mice
Record
| First published | 1989 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.03 (1,366 ratings, collected 2026-10-21) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781587171079 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
After Audrey Brown and her friends defeated the evil cat Jupiter, lord of the sewer rats, the albino mouse Oswald Chitter is deathly ill, having caught an infection during his time in the Deptford sewers. The second book of the Deptford Mice trilogy takes Audrey away from the sewers on a quest to bring an ancient squirrel mystic back to Deptford, in a setting that its author called a refreshing change from the sewers, and brings back Akkikuyu, a phoney fortune teller who once served Jupiter and lost her mind when she discovered that he was a cat.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Deptford Mice
- Series: The Deptford Mice core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Robin Jarvis
Notes
- ISBN recorded is the SeaStar Books US edition (2001).
- From the series record (The Deptford Mice): Audrey Brown and the mice of Deptford against the rat god Jupiter.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Deptford Mice: position 2 of 3: previous The Dark Portal (1989) · next The Final Reckoning (1990)
- Internal chronology, within The Deptford Mice: position 3 of 6: previous The Alchymist's Cat (1991) · next The Oaken Throne (1993)
Sources
- Wikipedia (The Deptford Mice)
- Wikipedia (The Crystal Prison)
- Something About the Author (via Encyclopedia.com)
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