Heir of Mystery
The Second Unlikely Exploit
Now available! by Philip Ardagh
with illustrations by David Roberts
First and foremost, this is a book about
death. Okay, so it doesn't start with an actual death like the Unlikely Exploit
which precedes it . . . but you'll find a lot of it about. Life's like that,
though, I'm afraid. Then again, if we didn't have death, this little planet
would be a very overcrowded place. Not only that, most buildings would be old
people's homes and entire continents would be taken up with retirement village
after retirement village, populated by some very old and wrinkled people indeed.
The second in the darkly hilarious new
series that started with The Fall of Fergal.
In this, the second Unlikely Exploit,
Fergal McNally's brain -- last seen in a pickling jar in the basement of
the Sacred Heart Hospital -- is stolen, and the remaining McNally
children are mysteriously drawn to Fishbone Forest and the forgotten
crumbling mansion which lies at its heart. Here they meet the terrifying
teddy-bear-clutching Mr. Maggs who is planning to make sweeping changes
to the world . . . which is all rather unlikely, isn't it?
Packed with humor and excitement, this
is another surefire winner.
September 2004
Fiction
0-8050-7477-5
$9.95/NCR
5 1/8 x 7 5/8 144 pp.
Middle-Grade
Ages: 8 and up
b&w illustrations throughout
Heir of Mystery is available
at all fine bookstores. Here are
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(local booksellers)
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