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'St. Percival's School is in trouble. Funds have run dry and the bulldozers are standing by to turn it into a shopping centre. The school's survival now depends on six intrepid students. Can they solve the cryptic geography clues devised by Septimus J Gherkin?' (Publisher's blurb)
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