Trevor Forest working on a new book.

Hi Kids,

I'm currently writing a new book about a young girl called Agatha Tapp who moves from the city to a cottage in the small village where her father was born. Each summer the children from the three different parts of the village called Three Farthings, enter teams in a treasure hunt competition. Unfortunately Duck Pond Lane, where Agatha now lives, hasn't been able to enter a team for over ten years. Agatha is taunted by the members of Duck Pond Lane's biggest rivals, the Brickley Road Bears, who are regular winners of the competition.

Agatha has a job on her hands to build a team as there are only four other children of qualifying age in her part of Three Farthings village and she will have to get all of them on board if they are to have any chance of winning.

During the treasure hunt the Duck Pond Lane team are digging for a clue when they find an old metal tin containing a bag of silver coins and a cryptic clue. The object has nothing to do with their own treasure hunt and once word gets out, Three Farthings is overrun with strangers carrying metal detectors, spades, and maps.

As the story of Agatha's find hits the national papers, she realises that her team is now involved in two treasure  hunts. One of them is a competition set up thirty-five years earlier, with a prize worth two hundred thousand pounds.

Can Agatha, Sarah, Freddy, Gabby and Jake, solve the riddle and find the big prize, or will nasty Fritz Fellows and his friends, helped by Agatha's fiercest rivals, get there first?

Trevor Forest