Publisher's Synopsis
The Skallies was a row of tumbledown houses built on the windlashed coast. Ten-year-old Archie Grimble, with his crippled leg and one good eye, lived a miserable existence there. Then a chance encounter with an unhappy little girl and the discovery of a locked diary set him on a mission to unravel the mystery of a boy who drowned off Skilly Point in August, 1900. But Archie's investigation was to have unexpected consequences. A shocking murder and an unexplained abduction were to shatter his world forever. Only years later, on his return to the ruined Skallies, does Archie stumble on the answer to a puzzle that has haunted him since childhood - and the extraordinary truth about the fate of Thomas Greswode is at last revealed.
