Justine Windsor - Goodly and Grave in a Case of Bad Magic

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018

Published in this ebook edition in 2018

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Source ISBN: 9780008183592

Ebook Edition © July 2018 ISBN: 9780008183608

Version: 2018-06-07

For Chas ’n’ Pheebs

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018 Published in this ebook edition in 2018 HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF The HarperCollins Children’s Books website address is www.harpercollins.co.uk Text copyright © Justine Windsor 2018 Illustrations copyright © Becka Moor 2018 Cover design © HarperCollins Publishers 2018 Justine Windsor and Becka Moor assert the moral right to be identified as the author and illustrator of the work respectively. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBN: 9780008183592 Ebook Edition © July 2018 ISBN: 9780008183608 Version: 2018-06-07

Dedication For Chas ’n’ Pheebs

Chapter One: A Ball of Magic

Chapter Two: The Boy in the Alley

Chapter Three: When Sparks Attack

Chapter Four: The Bloody Penny

Chapter Five: Lord Percy and the Custard Slice

Chapter Six: Hard Times Hall

Chapter Seven: The War of the Maids

Chapter Eight: Lord Grave’s Exploding Great-grandmother

Chapter Nine: Gormless Grave

Chapter Ten: Rogue Animation

Chapter Eleven: Lucy Tests Her Theory

Chapter Twelve: A Note From Beyond the Grave

Chapter Thirteen: Demons and Doors

Chapter Fourteen: Lord Grave No More

Chapter Fifteen: The Wall of Masks

Chapter Sixteen: Pawprints and Fingerprints

Chapter Seventeen: Valentina’s Chits

Chapter Eighteen: A Stranger in the Library

Chapter Nineteen: Lucy’s Boots

Chapter Twenty: Summoned

Chapter Twenty-One: Swallowing Magic

Chapter Twenty-Two: Caught in the Net

Chapter Twenty-Three: Chasing the Demon

Chapter Twenty-Four: Caruthers Attacks

Chapter Twenty-Five: The End of Hard Times Hall

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Lucy Goodly dodged sideways. A flurry of sparks whizzed past, just missing her ear. Instead they hit the chimney breast behind her and sputtered out, leaving a faint smell of burning as well as a large scorch mark on Lady Tabitha Grave’s nose. Not the real Lady Tabitha Grave, but her portrait, which hung over the fireplace.

“Excellent!” said Lord Grave. “Your turn now. Concentrate. Create your own attack sparks and return fire!” Bathsheba, Lord Grave’s black panther, blinked her yellow eyes before slinking off behind one of the sofas, as though she understood what was about to happen.

Lucy narrowed her eyes and focused her thoughts on the spell in hand. As Lord Grave had instructed her earlier, she imagined all the warmth in her body rushing towards her fingers. As she did so, her fingertips grew hotter and hotter until they felt as though they would burst into flames. When she felt she couldn’t bear the heat a second longer, she raised her hand behind her head, and then, as if she was throwing an invisible ball, flung it forward. The orange-red sparks that were clustered around her fingers flew off like tiny flies and hurtled towards Lord Grave, who ducked. But he was a smidgeon too late and the sparks grazed the crown of his top hat. Lord Grave whipped it off and beat the sparks out before they could do too much damage. Lucy folded her arms and smiled in satisfaction.

“Impressive!” Lord Grave said. “Now, as I have just demonstrated, you might not always be able to get out of the path of an attack spark. And a magician skilled in this particular art might be able to create a spark that will track you if you try to flee from it. However, there is a technique that—”