Join the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand.
Solstice and Cudweed are appalled to find their father has appointed a new school master. But things get even worse when the grumpy, viciously mean teacher actually arrives. The Otherhand children are sure there's something more to him than meets the eye - the trouble is, who will believe them? No one it seems. Except, perhaps, Edgar.

Winner of the 2011 Blue Peter Book Award for Most Fun Story With Pictures, LUNATICS AND LUCK is the third story in this hilarious six book mystery series (with a touch of goth-froth) for 9 year olds from bestselling author, Marcus Sedgwick with quirky black and white line illustrations from new talent, Pete Williamson.

Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.uk

This book was recognised in the Most Fun Story with Pictures category by the Blue Peter Book Award. The Blue Peter Book Awards are a set of literary awards for children's books conferred by the BBC television programme Blue Peter. They were inaugurated in 2000 for books published in 1999. The Awards have been managed by reading charity, Booktrust, since 2006.

This is book 3 in The Raven Mysteries .

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Hachette Children's Group .

Find his website at www. marcussedgwick. com and follow him on Twitter @marcussedgwick Pete Williamson is an artist, illustrator and animation designer. Visit his website at www. petewilliamson. co. uk and like him on Facebook at www. facebook. com/pages/Pete-Williamson-Illustration/459975400719965.