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  • Published: 1 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446430828
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Jack Slater and the Whisper of Doom




Men in Black meets Ghostbusters in this hilarious tale for young readers.

Jack Slater is an official Monster Investigator - licensed to hunt out monsters who turn up under beds and terrorize small children. Brave Jack has never met a monster that could scare him... until now. The Dark Depths - home to the most terrifying of all monsters - have been opened, and Jack and his feisty friend Cherry must enter them and face the danger within. Armed only with their wits, a torch and a teddy bear...

  • Published: 1 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446430828
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

About the author

John Dougherty

JOHN DOUGHERTY lives in London. A supply teacher with plenty of experience of classroom activities in primary education, he is also a singer-songwriter with one CD already available - and has appeared on TV when his living room was designed in a Gothic style by Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen. In 2004, he also ran the London Marathon to raise funds for a charity to help children in care.

Zeus on the Loose was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award in 2004.

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Praise for Jack Slater and the Whisper of Doom

A rollicking adventure that'll keep the interest of any confident reader. There's plot by the bucketload, an interesting world to investigate, scary monsters, a snivelling rival, quirky humour, lessons to be learned, and everyone's home again in time for breakfast

Keith Dudhnath, The Bookbag