The second story of Tim and Jessica starts with a mysterious death. The location of a very rare flower, a beautiful Ladyas Slipper Orchid, lies in a coded message. But what dark event has silenced its sender? At the same time a different ORCHID, an experimental rocket, crashes on the island. In urgent and comic hunts for both aorchidsa, Tim and Jessica join with dangerously helpful Uncle Wilfred, Jessicaas scheming young sisters Alice and Rosalind and other rich characters. Bigger problems are a clash with ruthless Graham Fytts and the arrival of murky international politics on quiet Lifandoy. Tim struggles to explain such evil. Jessica, reading an old Bible, finds women in it whose lives speak to her of her fatheras death at sea and her relationship with the new lifeboat crew. Can Jessicaas sharp brains find either aorchida in time? Might Aliceas mischief, Uncle Wilfredas helpfulness and Jessicaas bravery combine to save the day? And where is that rocket, after all?scrapyard? The tall one that is bent at the tip?a#39; I set out for the garage. a#39;Leta#39;s ask Jack! What bent it? And when? And wea#39;ll search the scrapyard again. Some big piece of metal in the scrapyard must have attracted the missile to here. The divers anbsp;...
Title | : | An Orchid On Lifandoy |
Author | : | George B. Hill |
Publisher | : | Lulu Press, Inc - 2014-08-25 |
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