This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

This book was published 2005 by Blackstone Audiobooks .

Lilli Thal, historian and novelist, established herself on the German children's book market with her prize-winning series of humorous crime stories about Inspector Pillermeier. In Mimus she leads her readers into the dark and colourful Middle Ages. Lilli Thal lives in Southern Germany with her husband, two children and a dog. About the translator:. John Brownjohn has translated many books and screenplays into English from German and French and has been much praised for his deft and elegant use of language: 'seamless and idiomatic, without a single clumsy construction. It's a remarkable achievement to sustain a breakneck pace and never once sound as if the book were written in anything other than English'.