Title: Malice in Wonderland
First published: 1947
Description: Pianos tampered with, tennis balls dipped in treacle, and mysterious forces pulling idle swimmers underwater: the ‘Mad Hatter’ is wreaking havoc at Wonderland summer camp and his pranks are getting dangerous.

Private detective Nigel Strangeways receives a call for help from Wonderland, a new holiday camp that has recently opened only to be plagued by a series of cruel practical jokes conducted by the self-proclaimed ‘Mad Hatter’.

The camp’s owners are convinced a rival firm, desperate to put them out of business, is behind the events. But with four hundred guests, an angry hermit, and plenty of disgruntled employees, who is the ‘Mad Hatter’?
Subjects: Alumni and alumnae, Intellectuals, University of Oxford, Nigel Strangeways (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, England, fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, crime
Places: England
Time periods: 1940s
LC classification: PZ3.D3342 Mal10, PR6007.A95 Mal10, PR6007A95 M25 1947