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  • Published: 30 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9780552572026
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99

The Black Sphinx




A fast-paced and anarchic young fantasy adventure filled with dastardly villains and a brave young hero.

THE BLACK SPHINX is missing. Who wants it the most?

The indomitable CALLISTO? Queen of the Underworld SQUALIDA MACHEATH?
Or madder than a mackerel JASPER PEPPER?Or will it be CRISPIN RATTLE, our orphaned young hero?

But if jackal-headed gods can't stop JASPER PEPPER, what on earth can CRISPIN do?
Read this rip-roaring adventure in paperback now . . . and test your code-breaking skills against the hieroglyphic messages of the sphinx!

  • Published: 30 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9780552572026
  • Imprint: Corgi Childrens
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Matt Hart

MATT HART is Welsh and proud of it. He has worked as a fairground operative, in an architect's office, as a bus conductor and as a building-site labourer before turning to writing full-time. He reads loads, his favourite animal is the coatimundi and THE BLACK SPHINX is his first fantasy novel.

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