Questa serie narra le selvagge avventure di un giovane protagonista gettato in circostanze bizzarre e pericolose. Quando i suoi genitori si ammalano di una strana malattia, viene mandato a vivere con parenti eccentrici la cui casa porta un nome sinistro. Incontra medici particolari, membri della famiglia squilibrati e affronta sfide inaspettate. Le narrazioni sono piene di umorismo, suspense e una buona dose di fantastico, promettendo un viaggio emozionante per i lettori.
When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's sickly parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken in by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.
Twelve-year-old Eddie Dickens survives encounters with an escape artist in a runaway hearse's coffin, a hot air balloon bearing the escape artist's lovely assistant, a gas explosion, and a jewel thief on the run.
In the third instalment of the Eddie Dickens saga, our hero finds himself en route to North America with some of the most disreputable prospectors anyone might have the misfortune to share a berth with . . . only to come face to face with some familiar faces (stuffed animal and human) from his past, and with the Great Gretcha who suffers from serious bouts of sleeping sickness.
Eddie Dickens wird zu seinem verrückten Onkel Jack und seiner noch verrückteren Tante Maud geschickt, da seine Eltern krank sind. In "Schlimmes Ende" erwartet ihn eine Welt voller furchtbarer Darbietungen und schlechter Nachrichten. Ein humorvolles Abenteuer beginnt!