In her best tradition of wild and imaginative adventure, Joan Aiken takes Dido Twite to the Spice Islands in search of Lord Herodsfoot, wayward ambassador to King James the Third. Caught up in a political plot, Dido's party barely escapes murder, kidnap and sinister supernatural forces. The first book in the sequence, THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE, is regarded as one of the great modern children's classics. Therefore a new novel from Joan Aiken is always a cause for celebration.