He was very fat indeed yet he walked with the light dainty step of a woman. His cheeks were as chubby as a baby's his skin ivory tinted his black hair close-cropped his amber eyes slanting.' A family secret leads to murder in a house without locks... Someone is prepared to kill to procure a valuable set of pearls & a parrot fluent in Chinese knows too much...A Scotland Yard Inspector is about to close his final case but someone is prepared to kill to keep the mystery unsolved... Three very different crimes with one thing in common... He's Honolulu's greatest detective
- prepare to savour the wisdom of Charlie Chan. From Hawaii to San Francisco no crime is too baffling no clue too insignificant for Charlie. Long out of print Charlie Chan's first three cases The House Without a Key The Chinese Parrot & Behind That Curtain have been collected in one volume for your entertainment & bafflement.
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Charlie Cook is reading a book about a pirate captain who is reading a book about Goldilocks who is reading about a knight who is reading about a frog.. . From kings & queens to aliens & ghosts theres something for everyone in Charlies amazing book! Entertaining & original -- another winner from the best picture book team in the world. The picture book of the season The Bookseller Both the words & the illustrations are full of fun & jokes.. .above all it proves that reading is irresistible Sunday Times ...

Charlie Cook is reading a book about a pirate captain who is reading a book about Goldilocks who is reading about a knight who is reading about a frog.. . From kings & queens to aliens & ghosts there's something for everyone in Charlie's amazing book! Entertaining & original another winner from the best picture book team in the world. ...

At the end of his fifth journal Charlie Small rocketed out of the strange & dark Underworld over desert sands & a snowy white mountain range. With a table cloth over his head & a cushion strapped round his bottom Charlie parachuted right into the middle of a small swampy isl&. Clutching a mainly blank map that's supposed to help him find the infamous Jakeman he sets off for the next island only to find himself face to face with a slimy stinking roaring swamp monster.. . Will Charlie manage to slip through its gloopy claws? ...

Prepare to be utterly amazed by the latest instalment of Charlie Small's incredible yet 100% true adventures. On his way to Jakeman's factory Charlie is grabbed by Tristram Twitch who sends him off on three dangerous errands. Charlie must find a pearl from the giant oyster beds of the Pangaean Ocean a diamond-encrusted tiara from a mummified corpse & a gold quill from the back of the extremely rare golden porcupine of Mayapazan. & he has to befriend his old enemy Thrak the gorilla along the way! If he doesn't succeed Jakeman will be fed to a man-eating barracuda
- & Charlie will NEVER get back home...!
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FIRST PUBLISHED AS: THE PERFUMED PIRATES OF PERFIDY No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least not yet. His original battered journal was found washed up on a remote windswept shore in the north of Engl&. This second volume was found encased in ice high on a glacial plateau in the Himalayas. It details even more remarkable deeds & thrilling acts aboard the Betty Rae with the dastardly lady-pirates of perfidy
- & a lot more besides.
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FIRST PUBLISHED AS: THE PUPPET MASTER No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. At least not yet. His original battered journal was found washed up on a remote windswept shore in the north of Engl&. Now a third instalment has been tracked down & salvaged from beneath the seat of a bus shelter in Pimlico. Having finally escaped from the perfidious pirates Charlie travels through icy waters & hair-raising mountains & encounters man-eating bats a wolf whose bark is worse than his bite & ultimately finds himself ensnared by the evil Puppet Master a figure of pure unadulterated evil. Will Charlie manage to escape his clutches or will he remain a puppet for ever never to adventure again? ...

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS: THE DAREDEVIL DESPERADOS OF DESTINY This fourth volume of Charlie Small's journal was found by one of our editors propped behind a bottle at the back of a dusty bar in the valley where Charlie was last seen & it's full of more adventures than ever! Having escaped the clutches of the evil Puppet Master Charlie joins The Daredevil Desperados of Destiny whose sole aim is to get rid of the outrageous outlaw Horatio Ham. Charlie aka The Lariat Kid brings down Ham's posse of gunslingers takes part in a daring bank raid is caught up in a ferocious gunfight lands up in jail & is about to be sacrificed to The Great Bird of Death. Can Charlie possibly escape? ...

No one knows the full story of Charlie Small. His battered journal was found washed up on a remote windswept shore. & at first we thought it an elaborate hoax. Surely no eight-year-old could have had so many wild adventures witnessed so many extraordinary things lived such an incredible life
- & still only be eight. & yet.. .there was something so vivid in the telling that we were persuaded to send the journal for analysis. The results were absolutely astonishing. Everything in the journal of Charlie Small is true. He really has wrestled a deadly river croc ridden a steam-powered rhino & been tribal chief in a city of gorillas. & countless other things besides. &.. .not only that.. .even though Charlie Small is only eight he must have lived for over four hundred years!
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Whisked away by his old adversaries the Perfumed Pirates of Perfidy Charlie is put to work aboard their new galleon. Held captive & forced to raid an unsuspecting ship with the bloodthirsty crew Charlie is sure things can't get much worse... Until the pirates spot an enormous blunt-headed sharp-toothed whale. A terrible battle ensues as the pirates try to harpoon the beast & Charlie tries his best to stop them. Will Charlie & the whale escape from the evil pirate crew's clutches? & more importantly will Charlie Small EVER find his way home? ...