Published by Red Fox, part of Random House Children's Publishers UK
Format: Paperback
£5.99
Author:
Joan Aiken
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099456391
£5.99
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EAN: 9780099456391
Published: 4 Mar 2004
'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 . . .?
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A fantastic adventure story . . . Highly entertaining
- Sunday Telegraph
Joan Aiken is such a spellbinder
- Evening Standard
A writer of wild humour and unrestrained imagination
- Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Joan Aiken is a marvel
- Guardian
Prize-winning Joan Aiken was born in Sussex in 1924 and came from a family of writers. Her father was the novelist and poet, Conrad Aiken and her sister, Jane Aiken Hodge, writes historical fiction for adults. Before joining the 'family business' herself, Joan had a variety of jobs, including working for the BBC, the United Nations Information Centre and then as features editor for a short story magazine. Her first children's novel, The Kingdom of the Cave was published in 1960. Since then she has written over 100 books for young readers and adults and has been awarded the MBE for her services to literature. Joan Aiken died in 2004.
