I was a rat! ...or The Scarlett Slippers Reverend Richard Coles Who knows where we'll end

Who knows where we'll end up

Craig Russell introduces us to a new detective hero

They always have

spurred on by his love of Greek heroes and romantic poetry

Biggles is tipped off by Erich von Stalhein that three professional hit men from behind the Iron Curtain are in London

I was a rat! ...or The Scarlett Slippers Reverend Richard Coles Who knows where we'll endI was a Rat! Roger insists, and insists . . . In fact, when Bob the cobbler and his washerwoman wife, Joan, find the young boy abandoned on their doorstep, these are the only words he says. And he does have ratty behaviour, it's true. Staying with Bob and Joan, however, Roger learns quickly to behave more like a human child. They try to find his parents, but the orphanage, police and hospital all have nothing on their records about a lost boy in the