Magnificently moustachioed madman Gussage St Vincent is back from the dead and set on using his pirate galleon time machine to become OVERLORD OF THE UNIVERSE. It's up to Trainee Time Crime Agents Compton and Bryan to stop him, in a battle involving the pongiest pants in history, the Great Fish-Slapping Game and a LOT of custard pies.

Illustrations: Black line drawings

This is volume 4 in Compton Valance .

This book has been graded for interest at 8+ years.

There are 320 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Matt Brown has worked as a radio producer, DJ and TV presenter, appearing on children's channel Nickelodeon and hosting shows including The Bigger Breakfast, Love Island Aftersun and "I'm A Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here Now!". He is currently the host of the Heart Thames Valley radio breakfast show. Lizzie Finlay is the illustrator of A Tale of Two Wolves (Flying Foxes 2002). She studied Illustration at Exeter College of Art and has published a number of picture books, including Sam's First Day (Mantra 2000) and Buri and the Marrow (Mantra 2000). Her line drawings appear in I'm Telling You (Cambridge Young Writers Award, CUP 2000) and Write Here Write Now (DfEE/CUP 2000). This is her second book for Random House.