Meet the wonderfully weird Otherhand family & their faithful guardian Edgar the raven & discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherh&. Edgar is alarmed when he sees a nasty looking black tail slinking under the castle walls. But his warnings to the inhabitants of the castle go unheeded: Lord Valevine Otherhand is too busy trying to invent the unthinkable & discover the unknowable; his wife Minty is too absorbed in her latest obsession
- baking; & ten-year-old Cudweed is running riot with his infernal pet monkey. Only Solstice the black-haired poetry-writing Otherhand daughter seems to pay any attention. As the lower storeys of the castle begin mysteriously to flood & kitchen maids continue to go missing the family come ever closer to the owner of the black tail... Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.uk