Mr Twink and the Jungle Garden
Contributors: Illustrations by Nina Scott Langley; book steward at Epworth Press - Frank H. Cumbers
Edition: 1st
Series: Mr. Twink
Publisher: Epworth Press
Published: 1960
Place of publication: London
Number of pages: 122
First sentence: It had been a very hot day, the latest of many.  Sergeant Boffer, the policeman's dog, lay on the doorstep of the policeman's cottage and panted with his eyes shut and his long pink tongue hanging out.  Sparrows, made irritable by the heat, squabbled in the dusty road, calling each other rude names and even pecking at each other, but the Sergeant really couldn't be bothered to tell them to stop it and move along.  A fly alighted on one of his ears and he hardly had the energy to flick it off.
Description: From jacket front flap:
When a pigeon and a pullet are kidnapped from the new bungalows, Sergean Boffer, the policeman's dog, tries to show the dogs and cats there what a good Officer of the Law he is by punishing that rascal of a Cat, Captain Jake.
But is Jake really guilty?  Mr Twink, the cat detective who lives with the poet and is Boffer's dearest friend, says he isn't and there is almost a quarrel.
The kidnappings continue.  Bridget Buff Orpington has an odd dream, and Owl sees strange shadows.  Then Mr Twink declares that the village is in danger from some creature living behind the high walls and tall locked gate of the Jungle Garden over which even the birds are afraid to fly.
But what sort of creature can it be?  A dragon?
Sergean Boffer decides to be very brave and goes to find out.  When he does not return, Mr Twink knows that it is time to take matters into his own slim black paws.  At great risk to himself he sets off to find a way into the Jungle Garden.  There he discovers the truth, and by his courage and cleverness saves Boffer and the village once more. (Boys and girls, 6-11.)
Notes: The seventh of the nine Mr Twink books.
Table of contents: title: Boffer Nearly Loses His Temper
pagenum: 9
class: chapter
label: I; label: II
pagenum: 19
class: part
title: Poor Anastasia; label: III
pagenum: 28
class: part
title: The Dream of Bridget Buff Orpington; title: Captain Jake in Trouble
pagenum: 38
class: part
label: IV; title: The Outlaw
pagenum: 48
class: part
label: V; title: Almost a Quarrel
pagenum: 58
class: part
label: VI; label: VII
pagenum: 68
class: part
title: Jakes has Something to Say; title: Boffer Decides to be Brave
pagenum: 78
class: part
label: VIII; title: The Adventure
pagenum: 88
class: part
label: IX; title: Inside the Jungle Garden
pagenum: 97
class: part
label: X; label: XI
pagenum: 106
class: part
title: A Narrow Escape; label: XII
pagenum: 115
class: part
title: The Plan Succeeds