Pure Dead Magic: Part 3

By DEBI GLIORI

Above her head, the lintel was decorated with several cherubs peering through an infestation of stone bats. The ugliest of these cherubs had one eye that was not carved in stone, but rendered in black plastic, and this slid open, rotated slowly and finally fixed its lens on the woman below.

Upstairs in the observatory, Titus and Pandora examined the new nanny on the CCTV screen. Damp crawled across the dusty floor, occasionally finding dead daddy-long-legs and popping them into her mouth.

'Let me see,' said Titus. 'I'm looking in her handbag just now, hang on, I'll move the field a bit.'

'Let me see,' said Titus.

'You're supposed to be watching Damp. I did for ages in the attic, it's your turn. . . oh gross!'

'What?''

Publisher: Random House

Price: $16. 95

Age group: 10 plus years