Black Hearts in Battersea (Puffin Books)

by Joan Aiken (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1968

  $3.44

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $3.44

  Simon, hero of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, comes to London to study painting. He finds it a sinister place seething with plots, a town of dark alleys, mysterious meetings and still odder disappearances, of the grandeur of eccentric dukes and the evil of conspirators.

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $10.71

  Simon paid off the driver and turned to follow Mrs Twite. But she seemed to have locked the door behind her and, as he rattled the latch unavailingly and then rapped the locker, something dark and suffocating was forced down over his head and a pair of hands gripped his throat. Simon, coming to London to study painting with his old friend Dr Field, finds he has vanished without trace. Determined to discover what lies behind his disappearance, Simon is trapped in a fiendish plot. Why has his landlord got guns in his cellar and how does one deal with his irrepressible daughter, Dido ...?