When Eddie Dickens's parents go yellow, crinkly around the edges and smell of old hot-water bottles, he's sent away to live with Mad Uncle Jack, Even Madder Aunt Maud and her stuffed stoat called Malcolm...and so begins a series of outrageous adventures involving escaped convicts, missing jewels, cucumber-waving orphans, and a hollow cow called Marjorie.

"Special 10th anniversary edition only one year late"--Front cover. "Three books in one!" -- Cover.

Awful end. Originally published: 2000 -- Dreadful acts. Originally published: 2001 -- Terrible times. Originally published: 2002.