The ninth story featuring the eccentric Bagthorpe family, who were the subject of a television serialization in the 1980s. Mr Bagthorpe is suspected of being a terrorist - and of murdering his wife, who has disappeared. The police and the press descend en masse, and the family is under siege.

 

This is volume 9 in Bagthorpe Saga .

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Faber & Faber .

Helen Cresswell is best known for the Lizzie Dripping stories which appeared on television, and The Piemakers, her first outstanding success.