The
fourth book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series,
served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone’s cup of tea.
Behind
the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary’s Institute of Historical
Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don’t
call it “time travel”—these historians “investigate major historical
events in contemporary time.” And they aren’t your harmless eccentrics
either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history,
might be unintentional disaster-magnets.
The
Chronicles of St. Mary’s tells the chaotic adventures of Madeleine
Maxwell and her compatriots—Director Bairstow, Leon “Chief” Farrell, Mr.
Markham, and many more—as they travel through time, saving St. Mary’s
(too often by the very seat of their pants) and thwarting
time-travelling terrorists, all the while leaving plenty of time for
tea.
In A Trail Through Time, Max and Leon are reunited and looking forward to a peaceful lifetime together. Sadly, that doesn’t even last until lunchtime.
The
action races from seventeenth-century London to Ancient Egypt and from
Pompeii to fourteenth-century Southwark as the historians are pursued up
and down the timeline, playing a perilous game of hide-and-seek before
seeking refuge at St. Mary’s—where new dangers await them. Overwhelmed,
outnumbered, and with the building crashing down around them, will this
spell the end of St. Mary’s?
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