Barnaby Grimes is a tick-tock lad running errands in his city day & night & high-stacking around the rooftops in search of new mysteries to solve. This is a fantastic romp through a Dickensian-style city with a wonderful new hero in the guise of Barnaby. After collecting a strange parcel from a deserted ship in the fog of the docks & delivering it to the local schoolmaster Barnaby thinks he's earned a moment to sit on the rooftops & eat his favourite pasty. But soon he realises that all is not well at the school
- but is the problem quite as he expects it? A gruesome tale of a school overrun by a terrible curse
- who will survive?