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Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Robber Ghost
Series: Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam
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It's Halloween night, and Shifty and Sam are off to a posh hotel to bake SPOOKtacular treats for a Halloween party. But there's a spine-chilling mystery - a ghost has been stealing jewellery from the hotel guests! Is the robber really a ghost? There's something FRIGHTfully...
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It's Halloween night, and Shifty and Sam are off to a posh hotel to bake SPOOKtacular treats for a Halloween party. But there's a spine-chilling mystery - a ghost has been stealing jewellery from the hotel guests! Is the robber really a ghost? There's something FRIGHTfully familiar about that phantom... It's up to the doggy detectives to solve the mystery and save Halloween for everyone!
Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam is a hugely successful, action-packed series about two baker-dogs who used to be robbers, but now solve mysteries and sniff out crimes!
Tracey Corderoy is a multi-award-winning author and has written over 70 books for children including collaborations with Rosalind Beardshaw and Sarah Massini.
Steven Lenton has created many books with Tracey Corderoy and also illustrates books by David Baddiel, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, and Peter Bently. His books have won awards such as the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and have been selected for the WHSmith Children's Book of the Year and Tom Fletcher Book Club.
Includes a FREE Nosy Crow Stories Aloud® audiobook! Scan the code, hear the story.
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It's Halloween night, and Shifty and Sam are off to a posh hotel to bake SPOOKtacular treats for a Halloween party. But there's a spine-chilling mystery - a ghost has been stealing jewellery from the hotel guests! Is the robber really a ghost? There's something FRIGHTfully familiar about that phantom... It's up to the doggy detectives to solve the mystery...Hardback$2799Unit price /UnavailableOut 15 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781839943232
Publisher: Nosy Crow Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 10 September 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Nosy Crow Ltd
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Steven Lenton
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 230.0mm
Height: 290.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 32
About the Author
Tracey Corderoy (Author)
Tracey grew up in South Wales, on a council estate firmly sandwiched between the steel and chemical works.
She's a trained teacher, but now writes full-time in an old damp cottage in a valley in the woods. A multi award-winning author, her first book was published in 2010, and in October 2021, her 72nd.
Her passion for nosing into other people's 'stories' began in early childhood, thanks to an ancient set of encyclopaedias and a Ladybird copy of Cinderella.
Then one special teacher and many great librarians fed Tracey more and more books. Between their pages real magic started to happen. Impossible became plausible. Characters became friends. Boundaries became gates as slowly her world opened up. Books made her laugh, and cry, and think.
They made her feel that maybe she could do things...
Steven Lenton (Illustrator)
Steven hails from Cheshire and now works from his studio in Brighton, creating an array of charming characters for his books.
Best known for illustrating Shifty McGifty series, written by Tracey Corderoy, he has illustrated many lovely books and wrote his first picture book with Nosy Crow, Princess Daisy and the Dragon and the Nincompoop Knights.
Steven also loves to visit schools, festivals and bookshops, encouraging and inspiring his audience to draw, giggle and create! He is also a children's book blogger - just search for his name on YouTube. More information about him and his work can be found at stevenlenton.com.
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