The Big Six
$53.53
- Hardcover
400 pages
- Release Date
1 October 1989
Summary
‘Why shouldn’t we be detectives too?’
When Dick and Dorothea arrive in the Norfolk Broads all set for a blissful summer on the river, they find their friends the Death and Glories in a very bad situation. Accused of setting boats adrift, sabotage and theft, the boys are under suspicion by everyone on the river. And in the meantime, the real culprits are still at large. There’s no choice but to form a crime-busting team - The Big Six. As the evidence stacks against them, can they solve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224606394 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224606395 |
| Author: | Arthur Ransome |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Edition: | Revised edition |
| Release Date: | 1 October 1989 |
| Weight: | 559g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 145mm x 37mm |
| Series: | Swallows and Amazons |
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He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure. “Observer” There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating. “TLS””“He makes a tale of adventure a handbook to adventure.” -“Observer” “There is plenty of excitement, a little danger, a quality of thinking, planning and fun which is delightful and stimulating.” -“TLS”
About The Author
Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children’s treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post. Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul’s Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.
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