The Mystery in the Marshes

By Mark Dawson, Ben Mantle (Illustrator)

Part of the The After School Detective Club series

A camping trip turns mysterious when a friend vanishes amid strange lights and winds.

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240 pages

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Bookroo's summary

Max and his friends embark on a camping trip, hoping for adventure. But when they meet Byron and witness eerie lights and winds, their trip takes a mysterious turn. Byron disappears, leaving only his backpack behind. Has he been taken by a UFO, or is there another explanation? The friends must unravel the mystery before it's too late.

From the publisher

“[A]dventure-lovingreaders will find the developing friendships between the four children amusingand the mystery moderately exciting…. A jolly adventure story…”–Kirkus Reviews, review of TheCase of the Smugglers’ Curse: The After School Adventure Club: Book One The third in a seriesof gripping adventure stories featuring mystery, excitement, and friendship. Max is distraught when he receives a letterfrom the school telling him he has to go on a weekend of cycling and campingfor the Duke of Wellington awards scheme. But things vastly improve when hisfriends agree to come with him. It isn’t long before they find adventure - oradventure finds them… They make a friend named Byron and set up camp in aforest near his home. But that night they wake to see strange lights and afierce wind blowing through the trees. Moments later Byron arrives, running andscreaming that ‘they’ are after him. When the gang follow him, they find hisbackpack but no sign of the boy. It looks like Byron has been abducted by aUFO! But surely that’s not possible… is it?

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