Book description
Morag and Demelza, Sir Gadabout's old adversaries, have taken over the
pet shop in Camelot village. They have adopted elaborate disguises and
are keeping the real owner under lock and key, intending to cause so
much chaos at the Round Table that they can move in and install
themselves as King and Queen, with their ridiculous claim to the throne
backed up by doctored family trees.
The knights at Camelot begin to realise that their pet food is having a
strange effect, and that pets they have bought from the shop aren't all
they expected; Sir Gadabout himself has a little lizard which grows
rapidly into a crocodile and terrifies everyone. The cause of the
problem is eventually traced back to the pet shop and our determined
knight is sent to investigate, resulting in the usual mayhem. Martyn
Beardsley has lived in Nottingham all his life. A civil servant for many
years, he is now concentrating on his writing career. As well as being a
children's author, one of his great passions is history. In 2002 he
published a biography of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer. A
committed Buddhist, he is interested in reading, sport, keep-fit and
yoga. Martyn Beardsley is married with one daughter and a mad dog.
