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Devil's Cove the adventures of Josephine Mary Cresswell
204 p.
ill.
New Zealand author ; New Zealand illustrator.
Summary: An adventure story set in Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, in the 1950s. Suddenly orphaned, Josephine Mary Cresswell's world crumbles and she moves to live with an aunt who is a virtual stranger. At her new school Josephine makes friends with Tommy, the son of the local constable, but falls foul of Prudence, the school bully. When Prudence goes missing Josephine and Tommy set off to search for her in an abandoned gold mine and inadvertently stumble across a covert operation which ultimately leads to Devil's Cove