Murder on the Safari Star: Adventures on Trains #3 - Hardcover

by M. G. Leonard (Author), Sam Sedgman (Author), Elisa Paganelli (Illustrator)

In this third book of the middle-grade Adventures on Trains series by M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman, amateur sleuth Hal Beck travels to South Africa with his uncle to a ride a famous train...and stumbles onto a murder mystery!

Following his adventure on the California Comet, artist and amateur sleuth Hal Beck is looking forward to another railway journey with Nat, his journalist uncle--this time riding the historic Safari Star through South Africa. Then the already eventful journey becomes even more so when one of their fellow passengers dies on board!

Accident . . . or murder?

With help from a new friend, Winston (and his mongoose, Chipo), Hal is determined to figure out if a murder has really taken place and, if so, who among a long list of suspects is the killer--all before the Safari Star arrives at its final destination.

Author Biography

M. G. Leonard is the award winning, bestselling writer of the Beetle Boy books, The Twitchers series, and the Adventures on Trains series. Her books have been translated into over forty languages. Beetle Boy is currently in development as a live-action series for TV. Maya lives in Brighton, England, with her husband, two sons, a cat called Kasper, a dog called Nell and several pet beetles.

Sam Sedgman is an award-winning, bestselling novelist, and lifelong crime fiction enthusiast. He lives in London, where he once ran a company devising murder mystery treasure hunts. He grew up with a railway line at the bottom of his garden and has been fascinated by trains ever since.

Elisa Paganelli was in Modena Italy and lives in the UK. She is the illustrator of the Adventures on Trains series.