Who has stolen the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London? How could the thief walk through walls made of stone? What further crimes lurk inside the mind of the Black Crow? Penelope Tredwell is cursed with writer's block. So when a mysterious letter arrives confessing to an impossible crime, Penelope thinks she's found the perfect plot. Sinister experiments, kidnap and treason. But what if it's all true?
Christopher Edge is an award-winning children's author whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages. His novel The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day won the STEAM Children's Book Prize and his last four novels were all nominated for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal.
Before becoming a writer, he worked as an English teacher, editor and publisher - any job that let him keep a book close to hand - and he now lives in Gloucestershire with his wife and family, close to his local library.
