The Eddie Dickens Trilogy (Eddie Dickins Trilogy, #1)

by Philip Ardagh

David Roberts (Illustrator)

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AWFUL END
When both of Eddie Dickens's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly round the edges and smell of hot water bottles, it's agreed he should go and stay with relatives at their house Awful End. Unfortunately for Eddie, those relatives are Mad Uncle Jack and Even-Madder Aunt Maud, and it doesn't look as if the three of them are ever going to reach their destination ...

DREADFUL ACTS
Eddie Dickens narrowly avoids an explosion, a hot-air balloon and arrest, only to find himself falling head-over heels for a girl with a face like a camel's, and into the hands of a murderous gang of escaped convicts who have 'one little job for him to do'.

TERRIBLE TIMES
Eddie had been given the task of travelling to America to look after his family's interests there. But his life is never that simple; especially with a potential stowaway in his trunk, and Lady Constance Bustle at his side. She's a professional 'travelling companion', whose previous employers seem to have died under the most remarkable and unfortunate circumstances ...
  • ISBN10 0571274692
  • ISBN13 9780571274697
  • Publish Date 4 August 2011 (first published 1 September 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 22 February 2023
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Faber & Faber
  • Edition Main
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 448
  • Language English