Goodly and Grave in a Case of Bad Magic

Goodly and Grave in a Case of Bad Magic
Justine Windsor

The third adventure in this sharp-witted mystery series with a magical twist.Lord Grave is hosting a special ball at Grave Hall, and Lucy Goodly can’t wait to see powerful magicians from all over the world gathered in one place. But alarming events in Grave Village threaten to overshadow the glittering occasion. Who are the strange children attacking Lucy’s friends? What do they want? And why are his lordship, Vonk the butler and even little Violet, the scullery maid, behaving so oddly? Could it be to do with the same dark forces that were overthrown exactly a hundred years ago?It’s up to Lucy to solve the mysteries before magicians everywhere are put in mortal peril.The third Goodly and Grave page-turning mystery with a magical twist.

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018

Published in this ebook edition in 2018

HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd,

HarperCollins Publishers

1 London Bridge Street

London SE1 9GF

The HarperCollins Children’s Books website address is www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)

Text copyright © Justine Windsor 2018

Illustrations copyright © Becka Moor 2018

Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

Justine Windsor and Becka Moor assert the moral right to be identified as the author and illustrator of the work respectively.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

Source ISBN: 9780008183592

Ebook Edition © July 2018 ISBN: 9780008183608

Version: 2018-06-07

For Chas ’n’ Pheebs

Contents

Cover (#u6a2396c0-9886-550a-8ffe-f476293f4fff)

Title Page (#ua324f8fc-c72b-5070-a622-02864bebbc35)

Copyright (#u366e95dc-97ee-5744-94d0-8da37275f378)

Dedication (#ud9968c44-471a-54d8-991f-74a9ea86071c)

Chapter One: A Ball of Magic

Chapter Two: The Boy in the Alley

Chapter Three: When Sparks Attack

Chapter Four: The Bloody Penny

Chapter Five: Lord Percy and the Custard Slice

Chapter Six: Hard Times Hall

Chapter Seven: The War of the Maids

Chapter Eight: Lord Grave’s Exploding Great-grandmother

Chapter Nine: Gormless Grave

Chapter Ten: Rogue Animation

Chapter Eleven: Lucy Tests Her Theory

Chapter Twelve: A Note From Beyond the Grave

Chapter Thirteen: Demons and Doors

Chapter Fourteen: Lord Grave No More

Chapter Fifteen: The Wall of Masks

Chapter Sixteen: Pawprints and Fingerprints

Chapter Seventeen: Valentina’s Chits

Chapter Eighteen: A Stranger in the Library

Chapter Nineteen: Lucy’s Boots

Chapter Twenty: Summoned

Chapter Twenty-One: Swallowing Magic

Chapter Twenty-Two: Caught in the Net

Chapter Twenty-Three: Chasing the Demon

Chapter Twenty-Four: Caruthers Attacks

Chapter Twenty-Five: The End of Hard Times Hall

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)