The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt

Name: The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt
Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Author: John Bellairs
ISBN: 9780142402634

by John Bellairs

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(5 ratings)

176 pages1983Puffin BooksISBN 9780142402634

Young Adult Fantasy Young Adult Fiction Adventure Mystery Fiction

About this book

Twelve-year old Johnny Dixon and his friend Professor Childermass look for the hidden will left by an eccentric cereal tycoon, Mr. Glomus, who wished to make life difficult for his heirs after his own death by suicide. Although the professor warns him to stay away from the Glomus mansion, Johnny can't resist a challenge. Soon he's alone in the deserted house...with one of the undead at his heels!

Publication Details

Publisher: Puffin Books
Published: 1983
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780142402634
Language: en

About John Bellairs

<a href="http://bellairsia.com">John Bellairs</a> (1938–1991) was an American novelist working primarily in the Gothic genre. He is best-known for the children's classic The House with a Clock in its Walls 1973) and for the pathbreaking fantasy novel The Face in the Frost (1969). Bellairs held a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame University and a master's in English from the University of Chicago. He combined writing and teaching from 1963 to 1971, including a year at <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a> that coincided with that school's storied <a href="http://www.bellairsia.com/the_life/il/gis.html">Grotesque Internecine Struggle</a>. After 1971, he took up writing as his full-time work. (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/John_Bellairs">Shimer College Wiki</a>)