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Rosie, Kathie and the Pot of Gold
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Rosie and Kathie start at Mundella High School and Kathie quickly gains a place on the school hockey team. She is so good, when the captain resigns, the other girls elect her captain and she soon involves unsporty Rosie as team physio. The key game with their rivals, Croydon Comprehensive, turns bloody when the Croydon coach orders one of her defenders to chop Kathie down.
Out of school, on a ramble to the ruins of a local abbey Kathie finds a bottle in the wall of an ancient well. It contains a treasure map written, Kathie believes, by a mad monk 400 years ago. (ISBN 9781905996018, 422 pages, 17 illustrations)
Rosie, Kathie and the Disappearing Body
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The girls, 11 and 12 years old, are tobogganing on a snowy Christmas Eve. Halfway down a hill their sledge runs into the body of a youth – he’s been stabbed to death. But by the time they return with the police, both snow and body have melted away. (ISBN 9781905996063, 275 pages, 23 illustrations)
Rosie, Kathie and the Haunted Wood
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Rosemary Whyte has seen markings on an ancient map. She thinks it’s a secret tunnel which starts in a wood in the wilds of Surrey. So she and her best friend Kathie go looking for the entrance. But then a local boy tells them it’s well known thereabouts that the wood is haunted – devilish laughter has been heard coming from it late at night. Nevertheless Kathie’s desperate to find the tunnel because she’s convinced it will lead to hidden treasure. But how to dodge the ghosts . . .?
It’s September and the two girls return to their country High School, Mundella, as second-formers. A new games mistress, Miss Murdoch, is in charge of the school hockey team which Kathie captains. This teacher is a tough middle-aged bruiser and soon gains the nickname ‘Old Murder’! Who is going to dictate team tactics? That’s the first of many battles . . . (ISBN 9781905996094, 117 pages, 17 illustrations)
Rosie, Kathie and Traitor's Gate
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Kathie is captain of the Mundella High School hockey team and Rosie is team physio. This season’s team is the best anyone can remember and only one other school can stop them winning the County League Shield – that’s their deadly rivals Croydon Comprehensive. Mundella and Croydon are joint league leaders. But in the first crucial game between them, it becomes clear that the opposition coach knows Mundella’s game plan. She uses the info to get a one-nil win. “We were betrayed!” Kathie cries as she comes off the pitch. “Some filthy rotten creep betrayed us! Whoever did it’s gonna suffer. That’s a promise!” The search for the traitor begins . . . (ISBN 9781905996148, 185 pages, 18 illustrations)
Rosie, Kathie and the Tower of London
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Kathie loves exploring dungeons and the best dungeons in England are under the Bloody Tower, one of the 22 towers making up the Tower of London. On a visit when the guide isn't looking, the girls duck past a rope and race down the stone steps. One of the dungeons they find is being reconstructed for viewing by tourists. Some of the flooring has been dug up and scratched into the under surface of a paving slab they find a faint coded message.
Rosie thinks it could have been made by Sir John Barstead. He was imprisoned and executed at the Tower by King Charles the 2nd after the king returned from exile in 1660. Sir John had signed the King's father's death warrant eleven years earlier. But before he was arrested, it was reported at the time that Sir John buried a butter barrel full of gold bars, possibly in the Tower grounds. Many attempts have been made to find it. Samuel Pepys, the famous diary-writer of that era, tried and failed. No one has gotten their hands on that gold . . . yet . . . (ISBN 9781905996179, 158 pages, 13 illustrations)
Rosie, Kathie and the Great Wizard
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Rosie and Kathie are in their second year at Mundella High and when a school concert is organised. Rosie remembers that her uncle used to do magic tricks. When asked, he readily agrees to put on a show using the name: The Great Wizard, providing Rosie will agree to be magically transported out of a cabinet on stage and up onto a balcony. (ISBN 9781905996216, 145 pages, 18 illustrations)
Rosie, Kathie and the Magus
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After participating in the school concert magic show, Kathie is determined to learn how to do magic. But when she tries to buy tricks in a magic shop, she and Rosie meet THE MAGUS. He is very tricky . . . in fact, when he has Kathie's money in his pocket, he disappears! (ISBN 9781905996315, 164 pages, 20 illustrations)
