"[A]dventure-lovingreaders will find the developing friendships
between the four children amusingand the mystery moderately exciting....
A jolly adventure story..."--Kirkus Reviews, review of TheCase of the
Smugglers' Curse: The After School Adventure Club: Book One
Things in Southwold get off to a bad start! Max has to do extra lessons
while Charlie has been roped into helping with the decorating. Meanwhile
Lucy loses an important race to a new girl in her school, Miranda
Fitchwitherington, who seems to enjoy being as mean as possible to Lucy
and the rest of the gang.
And there is more bad news - when the gang meet Captain Tom, walking his
own dog, Pugly, he tells them about an outbreak of pet thefts in the
area. When they meet a lady looking for her lost dog, their worst fears
are realised - there are dognappers on the loose in Southwold!