Other books by Holly Bell Amanda Cadabra and The Hidey-Hole Truth (The Amanda Cadabra Cozy Paranormal Mysteries Book 1) Amanda Cadabra and The Cellar of Secrets (The Amanda Cadabra Cozy Paranormal Mysteries Book 2) Amanda Cadabra and The Flawless Plan (The Amanda Cadabra Cozy Paranormal Mysteries Book 3) Amanda Cadabra and The Rise of Sunken Madley (The Amanda Cadabra Cozy Paranormal Mysteries Book 4) Amanda Cadabra and The Hidden Depths (The Amanda Cadabra Cozy Paranormal Mysteries Book 5) Other books published by Heypressto 50 Feel-better Films 50 Feel-better Songs: from Film and TV 25 Feel-better Free Downloads Copyright © Holly Bell (2021). All rights reserved. http://www.amandacadabra.com This book is a work of fiction. Any references to real events, people or places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual events, places or people, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. www.heypressto.com Cover art by Daniel Becerril Ureña Twitter: @holly_b_author Sign up and stay in touch To Anton, Tamara and Chris You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains, It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The Road to Kernow Chapter 2: What’s The Story Chapter 3: About A Boy, and The Fall Chapter 4: Parhayle Chapter 5: Cal’s Proposal Chapter 6: Amanda Makes a New Acquaintance Chapter 7: Sir Philip’s Answer Chapter 8: Vision on The Moor Chapter 9: Farewells, and Installation Chapter 10: Pasco, and Amanda Meets Nancarrow Chapter 11: Fire — Inspector Hogarth Investigates Chapter 12: The Lead, and The Oath Chapter 13: The House of Lucy Chapter 14: Return to the House of Lucy Chapter 15: A Tale of Three Houses Chapter 16: Hidden Extras Chapter 17: Restless Night Chapter 18: Money and Magic Chapter 19: Over the Wall Chapter 20: Crimson Lake Chapter 21: The Missing Piece Chapter 22: The End of the Line Chapter 23: On the Stairs Chapter 24: Feeling the Way Chapter 25: Understanding Lucy Chapter 26: Proposal Chapter 27: Answer, and a New Puzzle Chapter 28: The Unusual Suspects, and the Shore at Dawn Chapter 29: Caught in the Act Chapter 30: Chief Inspector Hogarth Investigates: Marielle and Zoe Chapter 31: Chief Inspector Hogarth Investigates: Geoffrey, Elodie and Peter Chapter 32: Between Friends Chapter 33: The Trelawneys Chapter 34: What Amanda Saw Chapter 35: The One Who Told the Truth Chapter 36: Flamgoyne Chapter 37: Looking for Answers Chapter 38: Flossie and Amanda on Bodmin Chapter 39: The Missing Pieces Chapter 40: Hogarth’s Plan Chapter 41: Into the Past Chapter 42: The Only Way Chapter 43: Gearing Up Chapter 44: Into the Fire Chapter 45: The Wand of Agacine Flamgoyne Chapter 46: Homecoming Chapter 47: Whatever Happened To …? Chapter 48: The Contracts Chapter 49: Flamgoyne and Cardiubarn Chapter 50: Revelation Chapter 51: One More For The Road Chapter 52: Sunken Madley Chapter 53: Department 14 Chapter 54: M, Q, and Kindly Advice Chapter 55: Visitors Chapter 56: A Gift for Thomas Chapter 57: Another Revelation, and Questions Author’s Note About the Author Acknowledgements About the Language DID you know? The Cornish Language Questions for Reading Clubs Glossary of British English Accents and Wicc’yeth Introduction Please note that to enhance the reader’s experience of Amanda's world, this British-set story, by a British author, uses British English spelling, vocabulary, grammar and usage, and includes local and foreign accents, dialects and a magical language that vary from different versions of English as it is written and spoken in other parts of our wonderful, diverse world. For your reading pleasure, there is a glossary of British English usage and vocabulary at the end of the book, followed by a note about accents and the magical language, Wicc’yeth. Amanda Cadabra and The Strange Case of Lucy Penlowr Holly Bell Chapter 1 The Road to Kernow ‘The pretty mist,’ the old woman’s voice echoed in Amanda’s mind. It was hard to see through the fog that was now brown, now purple, now mustard yellow … sickly sweet. She stretched out her little three-year-old hand. Suddenly it was dark. She was outside on the Moor. Amanda knew it by the scents. But not entirely dark. Smoke was boiling up into the night. A building was aflame and then … a blinding flash. With a gasp, Amanda woke up. Calm but concerned tones came from her right, asking, ‘Are you all right, Miss Cadabra?’ ‘Er ....’ The sound of the familiar Ford Mondeo’s engine purred comfortingly. She looked with relief at the motorway, its green embankments flying by, and then turned her head. There was the pleasant face of Detective Inspector Thomas Trelawney of the Devon and Cornwall Police, at the wheel beside her. Amanda pushed her long mouse brown hair off her face and exhaled. ‘Yes, yes, thank you. I’m fine.’ ‘Bad dream?’ ‘Yes ... except ....’ ‘Do you want to tell me? It might help.’ ‘Thank you. I wonder ... I’m afraid I do have a tendency to fall asleep on long car journeys,’ Amanda admitted apologetically. ‘So I gather,’ said Trelawney with a smile, and a quick glance at her from hazel eyes, which then looked straight back at the road ahead. ‘That’s why I always make sure we’re equipped with a cushion.’ ‘And most kind of you it is.’ ‘My pleasure. Well? What was the “except ...”?’ he prompted. ‘I was back in that dungeon-crypt place at Cardiubarn Hall with my homicidal forebears. That day of the spell.’ ‘When you were three? The spell designed to cause your asthma?’ ‘That’s the one,’ confirmed Amanda. ‘And then suddenly I was on the Moor at night.’ ‘Bodmin?’ ‘Yes, and it was pitch dark, but then it wasn’t because there was smoke.
