Flood and Fang

FLOOD AND FANG is the first of The Raven Mysteries, a series of adventures set in and around Otherhand Castle, featuring the odd doings of the strange Otherhand family, their acquaintances and servants. The stories are narrated by Edgar, an old, grumpy, but essentially good-natured, raven who is the guardian of the castle and has witnessed many comings and goings. Edgar is alarmed when he sees a nasty looking black tail slinking under the castle walls. Lord Valevine Otherhand will have his head in his books trying to invent the unthinkable and discover the unknowable. His wife Euphemia (Minty for short) will be busy being a spectacularly uninvolved parent - which leaves 10-year-old Cudweed at the mercy of Solstice his thin, black-haired teenage sister. Luckily for Cudweed and, as it turns out for Edgar, Solstice is also quite smart so she may be able to help. As the lower storeys of the castle begin mysteriously to flood, the habitable portion of the castle shrinks, bringing the family ever closer to the owner of the black tail...

ISBN 1409112446   Weight (grammes) 104 ISBN13 9781409112440 (What's this?)   Published in London Publisher Orion Publishing Co   Series title Raven Mysteries Imprint Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )   Height (mm) 124 Format Audio CD   Width (mm) 141 Publication date 16 Apr 2009   Spine width (mm) 10 Playing time (mins) 120   Academic level Children (6-12) Volumes 2 Audio CDs

'Martin Jarvis is on fabulous form... Deliciously gruesome listening for seven to 11-year-olds.' -- Kati Nicholl DAILY EXPRESS "It is narrated by a raven called Edgar, a sulky old know-all who lives in the gloomy and vertiginous Castle Otherhand ... Martin Jarvis does Edgar proud, as a wronged and bronchitic scoutmaster, given to corvine croaks." INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

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