Mr Majeika and the Haunted Hotel (Mr Majeika, 6) - Softcover

Carpenter, Humphrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140323600 ISBN 13: 9780140323603

Publisher: Puffin, 1988

Synopsis

'Oh, don't be cowards,' said Jody. 'I'm sure it's perfectly safe.'

Mysteriously stranded in the fog at night. Mr Majeika and Class Three find themselves in a creepy hotel near Hadrian's Wall, where some very spooky things start to happen. Strange lights, ghostly sounds and vanishing people...

About this title

Review:

Delightful (Daily Telegraph)

About the Author:

Humphrey Carpenter worked at the BBC before becaming a full-time writer in 1975. He was the author of 14 of the well-loved Mr Majeika titles as well as two Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits titles for children. He was also the co-author, with his wife Mari Prichard, of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. He was an eminent figure in the world of adult literature and published award-winning biographies including, among others, those of J. R. R Tolkein, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten and Spike Milligan. From 1994-1996 he directed the Cheltenham Festival of Literature and for many years he ran a young people's drama group, the Mushy Pea Theatre Company. He wrote plays for radio and theatre and was a regular contributor to the Guardian. Humphrey died in January 2005.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140323600
• ISBN 13: 9780140323603
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80