In the days leading up to Halloween, eleven-year-old Carly Beth Caldwell is terrorized by the other students at her school with multiple scary pranks that succeed in causing her to run away crying and vowing revenge. On Halloween day, she goes to a shop and finds a mask that the shop owner does not want to sell her but Carly manages to run away with anyway. When she tries on the mask, she has difficulty removing it and her voice unintentionally changes to a hoarse growl.
The third in the mystery series is where Fatty really begins to take detective work seriously. The focus of the first six chapters is Fatty spending all his pocket money on disguises: a couple of wigs, several pairs of stick-on eyebrows, false teeth, some makeup, and a cap. Naturally Fatty tries out a disguise on the other Find-Outers, and completely fools them with his "frightful French boy" act.
When Molly's father returns from the war a broken man, the whole family is forced to move into the slums of Liverpool. Despite many difficulties, Molly is determined to make a better life for herself, hoping that one day she'll find love. But, abused by a man she trusted, Molly wonders if this dream will ever come true. When her father is killed at work and her mother turns to drink in her sorrow, Molly finds herself the only wage-earner. She tries to take care of her mother and younger sister, Jodie. But when a fire destroys their home, they find themselves homeless and with a bleak future ahead of them...
Scruton takes his readers on a journey through aesthetic theory and tries in every sense to apply them directly to architecture. By using theories from Kant, Marx, Freud, Hume, Alberti, Ruskin and many others on topics such as constructivism, and literary theory, Scruton tries to find the essence of architecture. Has architecture an essence? The book seemed to have many topics that were mentioned but not neccessarily completed which led to (at times) difficult reading and lost thought.
The fate of the galaxy is placed in the hands of Lunzie, who discovers the true nature of a new friend; Fordeliton, who is dying of a mysterious poison; Dupaynil, who is exiled; and Aygar, who tries to prove himself.
