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Double Jeopardy

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Double Jeopardy

By Jo McGahey About

Barnaby (Baz) and Cassandra (Cas) Geopardy are fourteen-year-old twins, hence the nickname Double Jeopardy. Their father is an antique dealer, and they are staying in a thatched cottage on a farm in ‘The Cotswolds’ (in the UK), while their father hunts for bargains in the district.
One day, at a local market in the town square, they see a man stealing apples and helping himself to other bits and pieces from the various stalls. The locals seem to let him steal from them. The twins are puzzled and they follow the ‘apple nicker’ to find out what he is up to, and in doing so they meet many of the locals, including a farmer’s wife, who is not at all jolly (as farmer’s wives are supposed to be). Then there’s a secretive butcher, a librarian, a boy in a bike shop and an old woman who hoards newspapers. By piecing together a complicated story and various clues, they solve the mystery.

AuthorJo McGahey About
Type Of BookAustralian Novel
FormatPaperback
Age13+
ISBN9780734406859
Published27/10/2004
Price Per CopyRRP $14.95
1–9 copies$13.45
10–19 copies$12.70
20+ copies$11.96
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Jo McGahey

Jo McGahey was a country kid from western Queensland, running wild, barefoot and almost unschooled until, aged eight, she was captured, shod and sent to boarding school. Later she trained as a nurse and married an itinerant soldier. Jo and her husband Michael live in Sydney, and have four adult children and three granddaughters. She left nursing in 1996 to concentrate on writing and has produced two novels, many short stories and some poetry. She has twice won the OUP Ozwords competition (2000 and 2002). Jo’s short stories have been commended in the Henry Lawson, The Scarlet Stiletto and the Arafura Awards. She came second in a national short story competion run by the Australian Women’s Weekly for her story Batteries Not Included. The Inheritance is her first novel to be published. She is currently working on her third novel Lost and a work of non-fiction entitled Ghosts of the Australian Armed Services.

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