Mike Nicholson - author, writer, children's author, consultant, Scotland, UK

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One of the popular six book series – each mystery story is packed with fun facts, interactive games and puzzles and dynamic, funny illustrations by Mike Phillips to engage young and reluctant readers.

Some people think that museums are boring places full of glass cases, dust and stuff no one cares about: wrong! In a hidden headquarters below the exhibits there’s a gang ready to handle dangerous, spooky or just plain weird problems: the Museum Mystery Squad.

It’s too spooky! Weird green smoke and an even weirder voice is coming from the Roman gladiator’s helmet! Visitors are being scared away from the museum by these ghostly goings-on.

The Museum Mystery Squad need to be at their bravest and most inventive with recording devices and overnight stakeouts, to try and work out what’s happening in the Roman Zone.

Kennedy, Nabster, Laurie and Colin the hamster learn about aqueducts, armour and a treasure trove of Roman artefacts, as they wrestle with the riddle of the ghostly gladiator.