The Lizard in the Cup
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On the lonian island of Hyos, where James Pibble has been sent to protect millionaire Thanassi Thanatos, it is difficult to know what is true. Is there really a lizard that will poison you if it drowns in your milk Is the man from the Home Office there to kill Or to save Or just to play cricket with the local boys under local rules Why does the grubby English girl live in a hut in a vineyard
She has a mysterious past, true. But then so has everyone else, and most of them have mysterious presents as well . . .Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781471907579
- Author: Peter Dickinson
- Pub date: 20.12.11
- RRP: $11.99
- Format: Electronic book text
Author
Peter Dickinson
Born in Zambia, Peter Dickinson spent his childhood in Gloucestershire and was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he read English. Before writing full-time, he worked in various capacities on Punch Magazine, where he reviewed detective novels. His own first two detective novels, Skin Deep and A Pride of Heroes, set a still unsurpassed record by winning the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in successive years (1968 and 1969), and his 21 crime and mystery novels have been published in several languages. Peter Dickinson is also one of the UK's most acclaimed children's writers. He has twice won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Award, as well as the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. He has been Chairman of the Society of Authors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded an OBE for services to literature in 2009. He lives in Hampshire, England.
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