- Children's stories, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery and detective stories
When one of them finds an ancient talisman in the backlands, three British teen-agers are plunged into a terrifying and dangerous mystery that appears to be connected with an old legend.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- John Gordon
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 187
- Publisher
- Penguin, Hutchinson Junior Books, Harper & Row
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780090883707
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>**John William Gordon** was a British author of a number of fantasy and horror novels and short stories aimed at older children and mostly set in East Anglia.
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