The Invisible Detective: Web of Anubis

Making a name for himself across 1930s London, Brandon Lake can answer questions and solve problems without ever leaving his dimly lit office. He isn’t known as the Invisible Detective for nothing; he doesn’t exist. Art, Meg, Jonny and Flinch are ‘The Cannoniers’, with a den in an alleyway off Cannon Street. They’re all street kids, with the exception of Art, whose dad is a policeman at Scotland Yard. They each have skills that they can use and as a team they can find out what’s happening anywhere on their patch. Knowing adults would not believe a bunch of kids, they invent the Invisible Detective.

Seventy years on, Art’s grandson, Arthur Drake, and his friend Sarah Bustle, live out a modern parallel world, investigating cases written down by Art, and studied in the 1930s. Arthur and Sarah become invisible detectives themselves through their own website.

In this sixth title in the series a new exhibit at the British Museum becomes a matter for the Invisible Detective when part of it goes missing. Art and his friends investigate an ancient Egyptian curse and discover that things are much more serious than anyone suspected. Sinister paranormal action and cliffhanger chapters which bristle along make this a refreshing and enthralling read. This book reads like Conan Doyle taking the Famous Five to meet Dr Who and Indiana Jones.

Other titles in the series include: Shadow Beast, Killing Time and Faces of Evil.