Author: John Verney
Year: 1961
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Mystery, Thriller, Suspense
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9780001842519
000184251X |
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Augustus Callendar, a newspaper correspondent, has been criticising the state of British roads for years & demanding that something be done about them. Finally something IS done about it. A new trunk road is planned to run from London to Portsmouth & is to be built in record time, & at record cost. Gus Callendar is caught! The new road is to go right through his own garden.
February Callendar, who tells the story, takes the whole problem upon her own shoulders. Trying to untangle the intricacies of land ownership & development & of local politics, she finds herself in the extraordinary dealings of Sir Jasper Blow, the Minister of Highways, Peter Blow, his nephew & head of her brother Friday's House, Sir Gilbert Crump, their M.P., Lord Sprockett, & Captain Gumble who seems to be getting a good deal more out of the venture than any man should.
Her main aim is to stop the road being built at all. It is not easy for a schoolgirl to divert the plans of the Ministry but February Callendar has a good try, and in the course of her investigations some decidedly fishy facts are ubearthed.
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