Renée Holler History Mysteries » History Mysteries – Evil Schemes at the Sun King‘s Court « 10+, January 2011 128 pages, 13.0 x 20.0 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-6984-9 hardcover 7,90 € (D)

King Louis is not amused!

Versailles in the year 1685: The gentry at the court of the Sun King are outraged. There is a thief amongst them. Antoinette and her friend Jean make a strange discovery – and take up the delinquent‘s track. Or is it even more than one thief? And where are they going to strike next? It seems the Sun King himself is in danger! And on top of that all Antoinette‘s sister Isabelle is abducted…

Luckily our two detectives quickly discover the wrongdoer. They free Isabelle and manage to hunt down the malicious thieves before they realise their biggest coup the robbery of the royal diamantes.

 

Key Points:

- historic events and personalities are at the focus of the successful History Mysteries series
- captivating detective stories combined with facts from history
- motivating quizzes at the end of each chapter make this series especially eligible for weak readers
- additional timetables, glossary, images and informative texts compliment the story
- this special approach to historic topics make this series the ideal completion to history class

Renée Holler was born in Würzburg in 1956. She studied ethnology, then worked in a publishing house ...