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| ISBN: | 0552567760 (ISBN13: 9780552567763) |
Ian Beck
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.31 | 13 Users | 4 Reviews
Present Appertaining To Books The Casebooks of Captain Holloway: The Disappearance of Tom Pile
| Title | : | The Casebooks of Captain Holloway: The Disappearance of Tom Pile |
| Author | : | Ian Beck |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | March 26th 2015 by Corgi Childrens (first published April 3rd 2014) |
| Categories | : | Childrens |
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On a bitterly cold winter's night in 1900, a young boy disappears without trace from the forest near his home in the quiet village of Litton Cheney. He is never found, but the man he was with claims he was snatched by angels.Forty years later, Corporal Jack Carmody is sent to investigate strange reports of mysterious lights above Litton Cheney. The villagers suspect German bombers overhead, but Carmody knows there's something far more intriguing going on. And when a terrified boy appears in the graveyard, convinced it's the year 1900, it's up to Carmody and his boss - the charismatic Captain Holloway - to uncover the truth.
Rating Appertaining To Books The Casebooks of Captain Holloway: The Disappearance of Tom Pile
Ratings: 3.31 From 13 Users | 4 ReviewsJudge Appertaining To Books The Casebooks of Captain Holloway: The Disappearance of Tom Pile
On a bitterly cold winter's night in 1900, a young boy disappears without trace from the forest near his home in the quiet village of Litton Cheney. He is never found, but the man he was with claims he was snatched by angels.Forty years later, Corporal Jack Carmody is sent to investigate strange reports of mysterious lights above Litton Cheney. The villagers suspect German bombers overhead, but Carmody knows there's something far more intriguing going on. And when a terrified boy appears in theI found myself at times interested and other times just wanting to get through this book and get it over with. I liked the concept of a little boy discovered at a completely different time than he understood and his special gifts which was my reason for picking up the book, but some of the dialogue I just found irritating and dumb.
Ian Archibald Beck (born 1947 in Brighton) is an English children's illustrator and author. In addition to his numerous children's books, he is also most famous for his cover illustration on Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album. He has sold more than a million copies of his books worldwide.On a bitterly cold winter's night in 1900, a young boy disappears without trace from the forest near his home in the quiet village of Litton Cheney. He is never found, but the man he was with claims he was snatched by angels.Forty years later, Corporal Jack Carmody is sent to investigate strange reports of mysterious lights above Litton Cheney. The villagers suspect German bombers overhead, but Carmody knows there's something far more intriguing going on. And when a terrified boy appears in the
DNF I didn't want to dnf another book this month but I had to. This book was just boring. I liked the concept of a boy going missing then 40 sum years later he is found still thinking it's 1900 but I just don't think this book was well written. At the beginning of the book it starts with a letter from Captain Holloway and I thought that it would still be in his point of view but it changed to Jack's without saying that it would.
The simplistic nature of the storyline makes for an easy read, whilst being interesting enough to want to keep reading. There was little point having the main character as a child prodigy as it didn't feature in the story line at all - in fact the author chose to avoid it on one occasion by stating he was too tired to work out the maths behind daily events - I'm not aware a genius mind switches on and off that easily!
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