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Find out moreWritten by Joan Aiken
Part of the The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase Sequence Series
Write A ReviewA favourite book chosen by Philip Pullman: "If Ransome was Mozart, Aiken was Rossini. Unforced effervescence."
"Simon paid off the driver and turned to follow Mrs Twite. But she seemed to have locked the door behind her and, as he rattled the latch unavailingly and then rapped the locker, something dark and suffocating was forced down over his head and a pair of hands gripped his throat."
Simon, coming to London to study painting with his old friend Dr Field, finds he has vanished without trace. Determined to discover what lies behind his disappearance, Simon is trapped in a fiendish plot. Why has his landlord got guns in his cellar and how does one deal with his irrepressible daughter, Dido...?
ISBN: | 9780099456391 |
Publication date: | 4th March 2004 |
Author: | Joan Aiken |
Publisher: | Red Fox an imprint of Random House Children's Books |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 256 pages |
Suitable for: | 11+ readers, 9+ readers |
Genres: | Adventure Stories |
Recommendations: | eBooks |
Joan Aiken (1924 - 2004) spent part of her childhood living in a haunted house. After leaving school, she worked at the BBC, the United Nations, and in the editorial department of a magazine. All this time, she had been writing stories and after her first major novel was published in 1961, Joan left her job to write full-time. She has now written almost 100 books for adults and children, Including the hugely popular The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase and Black Hearts In Battersea.
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