Never Trust a Dead Man
When Selwyn is accused of murdering his rival, Farold, he is sealed in the village burial cave with Farold’s moldering corpse to await starvationor worse. Worse comes along quickly in the form of a witch who raises Farold from the dead. Selwyn thought he disliked Farold when he was alive, but...
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When Selwyn is accused of murdering his rival, Farold, he is sealed in the village burial cave with Farold’s moldering corpse to await starvationor worse. Worse comes along quickly in the form of a witch who raises Farold from the dead. Selwyn thought he disliked Farold when he was alive, but that was nothing compared to working by the dead man’s side as they search for the real killer.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780152064488 (0152064486)
Publish date: October 1st 2008
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
I got through this book in a few hours. It's a very simple story with simple writing and simple characters. A bit predictable here and there but not enough to reveal the entire mystery of the plot. If I could change something about it that would be the little character development there is, it made ...
When Selwyn is falsely accused of murdering Farold and shut into a cave with all of the dead bodies of by-gone years, he's pretty desperate to get out and prove his innocence. Or just getting out works fine for him as well. By any means necessary. So when a witch, Elswyth, stumbles upon him and offe...
Picked this up because I'd heard something good about the author... or maybe her name just stuck with me because it's such a beautiful name. Anyway, this is a YA fantasy/mystery with a fairytale feel to it. A young man, Selwyn, is accusing of murdering his rival in love, Farold. The men of the villa...
First Selwyn's crush refuses to marry him--and then he's accused of murder! But luckily for Selwyn, he's saved from a slow death by a crotchety old witch. In exchange for years of service to her, she helps him disguise himself to find out who really murdered Farold. And with his disguise firmly i...
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