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Stairway to Doom: A Miss Mallard Mystery
By (Author) Robert Quackenbush
Illustrated by Robert Quackenbush
Simon & Schuster
Aladdin
1st September 2018
United States
Children
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
80
Width 130mm, Height 194mm, Spine 8mm
64g
World-famous duck-tective Miss Mallard must track down her disappearing family memebers in this engaging Aladdin QUIX mystery.
Miss Mallard is travelling to Scotlands Duckinbill Castle for a family reunion. During the reading of a will, family members vanish one by one. Is the ghost of Count Kisscula behind the disappearances
Robert Quackenbush (19292021),the author and illustrator of more than two hundred books for young readers, was a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and also hada masters degree in social studies and a PhD in childhood education. Quackenbushs many books include theHenrythe Duck series,Detective Mole,the Miss Mallard Mystery series,Pete Pack Rat, andthe Sheriff Sally Gopher series.He was the three-time winner of the American Flag Institute Award for outstanding contributions to childrens literature and winner of an Edgar Allan Poe Special Award for best juvenile mystery.He livedin New York City with his wife, Margery, director of NAAP. Their now adult son, Piet, was the inspiration for many of the authors books when he was growing up.