Review
"Immensely exciting, weird, and funny, Miss Aiken is at her best." —London Evening Standard


Review
"The author is better at creating villains than anybody since Dickens." — Time Magazine


Book Description
When Dido Twite sets foot back on English soil, more mischief awaits. As her friend Captain Hughes recovers from a carriage accident, Dido stays at the Dogkennel Cottages and meets the odd inhabitants of Tegleaze Manor: strange old Lady Tegleaze, her nephew, Tobit, and his wizened, witchy nurse, Sannie. Soon suspicious things happen. A priceless miniature is stolen. Tobit is framed and then kidnapped. A twin sister is found. And when Dido catches a glimpse of her rascally father in Petworth, she is sure she"s in the midst of another Hanoverian plot. Can she get to London to warn the king and save St. Paul's Cathedral from sliding into the Thames?


Card catalog description
As the result of an accident a young girl is faced with the responsibility of foiling a Hanoverian plot to put St. Paul's Cathedral on rollers and roll it into the River Thames during the coronation of James IV.


About the Author
Joan Aiken, daughter of the American writer Conrad Aiken, was born in Rye, Sussex, England. An avid reader from an early age, she has written more than sixty books for children.

ANNOTATION

As the result of an accident a young girl is faced with the responsibility of foiling a Hanoverian plot to put St. Paul's Cathedral on rollers and roll it into the River Thames during the coronation of James IV.

FROM THE PUBLISHER