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Mr Majeika and the Haunted Hotel (Mr Majeika, 6)

Mr Majeika and the Haunted Hotel (Mr Majeika, 6)

by HumphreyCarpenter (Author)

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    Paperback 1988

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    Paperback 1988

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Synopsis

'Oh, don't be cowards,' said Jody. 'I'm sure it's perfectly safe.' Mysteriously stranded in the fog at night. Mr Majeika and Class Three find themselves in a creepy hotel near Hadrian's Wall, where some very spooky things start to happen. Strange lights, ghostly sounds and vanishing people...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 80
 Edition: UK ed.
 Publisher: Puffin
Published: 27 Oct 1988
ISBN 10: 0140323600
ISBN 13: 9780140323603
Children’s book age: 7-9 Years

Media Reviews
Delightful * Daily Telegraph *
Author Bio
Humphrey Carpenter worked at the BBC before becaming a full-time writer in 1975. He was the author of 14 of the well-loved Mr Majeika titles as well as two Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits titles for children. He was also the co-author, with his wife Mari Prichard, of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. He was an eminent figure in the world of adult literature and published award-winning biographies including, among others, those of J. R. R Tolkein, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten and Spike Milligan. From 1994-1996 he directed the Cheltenham Festival of Literature and for many years he ran a young people's drama group, the Mushy Pea Theatre Company. He wrote plays for radio and theatre and was a regular contributor to the Guardian. Humphrey died in January 2005.