This story is about four children who meet at a holiday catch up school. Philip meets Jack and Lucy-Ann. Lucy-Ann and Jack are brother and sister.When Jack and Lucy -Ann's uncle inform the teacher that he can't have Jack and Lucy-Ann back, they escape with Philip to Craggy Tops.Philip's run down, mysterious, old house on the top of a cliff with no other house around for miles. Thats what they think..... They meet Dinah ,Philips sister at Craggy Tops along with Philips Aunt and Uncle and the mean matenance man Joe.
One day when they are climbing in the caves they find a passage. The passage helps them escape and baffle Joe. Together they all go down to the beach without Joe knowing and find a hidden house. The owner of the house is called Bill Smugs. All the children want to go to the mysterious island called the Island of Doom. Bill teaches them how to sail and then when Joe is out the steal Joe s boat. Jack and Philip find mines there. They go and tell the girls back at Craggy Tops.Then the next day all four of them go to the island. They explore the mines and find a bunch of not very nice miners. All of them apart from Jack get caught and locked up in the mine. Jack goes to try and find his pet parrot Kiki.
Jack gets lost in the mines but then The rest of the kids manage to escape. They find Bill and him and Philip find there is an under the sea passage to the mines. They find Jack. Bill tells him he is a police agent trying to solve a mystery about printing of fake money. They find Joe in the mines. He locks them up in the cell and tells them that they are going to flood the mines. Bill manages to unlock the door and they escape. All the fake money printers are arrested. The end.
I rate this book 9. You have to be patient to get into the book though.
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