The Big Six

byArthur Ransome

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It's great detective work that's needed now. Bill, Peter and Joe are falsely accused of setting boats adrift and the whole river is against them. Only Dick, Dorothea and Tom Dudgeon are there to stand by their friends and they soon set to work to investigate the crimes and trap the real criminals
Mr Ransome again equals or perhaps excels himself - every boy will vote this detective story super
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About Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917, and witnessed the Revolution, which he reported for the Manchester Guardian.

After escaping to Scandinavia, he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where, in 1929, he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book, Pigeon Post.

Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church, Rusland, in the southern Lake District.
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  • Series: Swallows And Amazons #9
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • ISBN: 9780099427247
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 277g
  • Price: £7.99
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