Mariah Mundi
Subtitle: the Midas box
By: G.P. Taylor
Publisher: Faber and Faber; Faber Children's Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780571226504
Subjects: Hotels; Fiction; Magicians; Magic tricks; Equipment and supplies; Secrets
Description: A boy called Mariah Mundi takes up a job assisting the magician at the luxurious Prince Regent Hotel, but, all is not as it seems, as a number of boys who were also sent there have gone missing. Mariah and his friend Sacha are drawn to an Egyptian sarcophagus in the slimy basement that holds a terrible secret. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.