Skulduggery Pleasant / Derek Landy.

London : HarperCollins Children's, 2007.

379 p. ; 20 cm.

Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction. Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard.

Hampshire Book Award Winner, 2008

9780007241620 (pbk)

11-up

English

Detectives
Fantasy
Fiction
Horror
Magic

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