Ribblestrop (49 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2009 by Andy Mulligan

Jacket illustration copyright © 2014 by Tad Carpenter

Map copyright © 2009 by Andrea Kearney

Originally published in 2009 in Great Britain by Simon and Schuster UK Ltd.

First US edition August 2014

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Jacket design by Sonia Chaghatzbanian

The text for this book is set in Palatino.

0714 FFG

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mulligan, Andy.

Ribblestrop / Andy Mulligan.—First US edition.

p. cm.

“Originally published in 2009 in Great Britain by Simon and Schuster UK Ltd.”—copyright page.

Sequel: Return to Ribblestrop.

Summary: At an unconventional English boarding school where the school motto is “Life is dangerous,” students discover something sinister when they stumble into subterranean tunnels left over from World War II.

ISBN 978-1-4424-9904-1 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4424-9906-5 (eBook)

[1. Boarding schools—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 4. Mystery and detective stories. 5. Humorous stories. 6. England—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.M918454Ri 2014 [Fic]—dc23 2013049283