A Matter of Clues

by Monica Marsden

'Is it near or is it far?
Would you go by wheel or car?
By land or water, seas or air,
Go to this house, but have a care
Many heads are round about
Many walls return a shout.
(Oh what a rail)

Was it just meaningless doggerel? Or was it really what it purported to be - a clue to the whereabouts of his next burglary sent to the local paper by that most unusual and enterprising burglar, Mr. X?
The population of Salisbury, Rhodesia, avidly cudgelled their brains to solve Mr. X's riddle. But the only two to succeed were the red-headed Kennedy twins, June and Julie. They little realised that their solution to the clue was to involve them in a series of odd and hilarious adventures - and in a friendship with a detective and a reporter, both as gay and light-hearted as the twins themselves.
Monica Marsden, herself a native of Rhodesia, provides an authentic and unusual background to this lively adventure."
(Dustwrapper blurb from 1962 edition)

My edition: Children's Press 1962 with dustwrapper
Not known in a Children's Press laminated edition

Not known in a Seagull edition

Children's Press dustwrapper 1962