Black Hearts in Battersea
Joan Aiken
""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 . . .?
Reviews
This book is about a boy called Simon who was sent a letter from Dr. Field to come and do art with him at the Academy of Art. But the address he was sent wasn't where Dr. Field lived. The family had a portrait of their daughter by him. What happened? Why was there a gun in the landlord's cellar?... I would recommend this book to people who like mystery. I hope I see people writing good reviews about this book. It's really good. It's got 17 chapters full of clues to where Dr. Field is.
Anonymous 08.08.2019
