I'm also a really big fan of John Blair's he's a great author he wrote house with a clock in its walls he wrote Spooky books for kids that are genuinely spooky and a lot of his books are also illustrated by Edward gory who's one of my favorite illustrators ever so I always pick up any kind of edition of his books I can find I like these older paperback editions because these are the ones that I used to read so this is the chesman of Doom by John Blair's it's a Johnny Dixon mystery
The Chessmen of Doom (1989)
Johnny Dixon, Fergie and Professor Childermass comply with a strange will left by the Professor's brother, which requires them to spend the summer at a desolate estate where they encounter a madman bent on destroying the world.
Similar books
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
- Farah's guide
- I Know What You Did Last Summer
- Nate the Great and the Halloween Hunt (Nate the Great)
- The Celery Stalks at Midnight
- The Crooked Banister
E. L. KonigsburgHaving run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Liked by creators3 reviews- Also mystery and young adult81%
- Cameron Chaney – Library Macabre loved both13%
- Similar descriptions6%