An Enemy at Green Knowe

"Full of a shivery sense of eerie menace." -- Book Week "Tremendously rewarding." -- The Horn Book Evil has come to Green Knowe... Ping and Tolly love spending their vacations in the ancient manor house, but this summer, things are different. Granny Oldknow's story of a mad alchemist digs up the past and brings the odd Melanie Powers knocking on the door, in search of a certain unspeakable book. Granny Oldknow, Ping, and Tolly soon find themselves defending Green Knowe from black magic. Plagues of maggots, wayward ghosts, nests of snakes -- the attacks are as weird as they are relentless. Will the three lose their beloved manor house? Or will good conquer the worst that evil has to offer? Lucy Maria Boston (1892-1990) purchased a ramshackle manor house near Cambridge, England, in 1935, which she lovingly restored over a period of two years. It is the house that inspired her, at the age of sixty-two, to take pen in hand and create the beloved Green Knowe chronicles. L.M. Boston said she wrote her books to please herself-- but the pleasure of her stories extends to all who read them. Simon Vance is a native of Brighton, England. After graduating from the Brighton School of Music and Drama, and Leeds University, Vance embarked on a lengthy career with the BBC, in addition to narrating for the Talking Book Service of the Royal National Institute for the Blind. Later, he moved his residence and narrating career to California. His work has received five AudioFile Earphone awards and three 'Audie' nominations.