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The London Eye Mystery
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The London Eye Mystery (2007) (edit title/settings)

by Siobhan Dowd (Author) (edit contributors)

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Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim board the London Eye. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off–except Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? Ted and his older sister, Kat, become sleuthing partners, since the police are... read more

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Ted and his older sister Kat get a letter from there Aunt Gloria and cousin Salim who they haven't seen in five years are coming to visit them in London before they move to New York. That night when they arrive Salim says he would like to go to the London Eye in the morning tomorrow, and they... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Ted and his older sister Kat get a letter from there Aunt Gloria and cousin Salim who they haven't seen in five years are coming to visit them in London before they move to New York. That night when they arrive Salim says he would like to go to the London Eye in the morning tomorrow, and they do. That morning Ted, Kat, and Salim are in line for the tickets when and stranger comes up to them giving Salim a ticket to ride the Eye. Then he waves goodbye and gets in the pod with 21 people onboard counting himself. Ted and Kat track Salim's pod for 30 minuts until it lands. Out came Japenese tourists, a family, and a girl and her boyfriend, but no Salim.
Ted and Kat end up telling Aunt Gloria and Faith, there mom, who call his cell phone but it was turned off. Next , they end calling the police who asks some questions which done by Inspector Pearce. Later, Pearce calls and says she found a boy that looks like him but they for sure, but he is dead. Ted's dad, Ben, goes down to check it out but it was not him. Thats when Ted who has aspergers syndrome comes up with nine theories, but they used the order of eliminationto get four left which where, Ted's watch went wrong and they lost tarck of his pod and where unable to meet him. Two, they missed him get out of the pod. Three, Salim suffered through amnesia and avioded them, and ran away. Four, Salim exited the pod in a disguise and he runs away. Then Ted and Kat started to think about the man who gave them the ticket, so they went out to go find him. When they found him he says that it was not him that bought the ticket it was a brown haired girl.
When they arrive back home Ted goes into the back yard to think about the whole thing. Like how 21 people got off the pod to and then the play that Salim and his buddy Marcus,who he got a phone call from before he boarded the Eye, were in and Marcus playing the woman in it. Then all of a sudden it hit Ted and he knew how Salim got off the pod. He called Inspector Pearce and told her his solution, and within an hour Marcus was at the front steps of there house. How Salim escaped the pod was, Marcus had wore the brown haired woman costum on the pod with Salim and when everybody in the pod turned into the top right corner of the pod for a souvenir photo they switched clothes. After that Salim would go to his dads house and stay there and not move to New York, but then he changed his mind and went back home but stayed in the Barracks, abandon tower, that was get hit down, and Salim got locked inside of it. Ted thought of the first place Salim would be and he was right. The entire family to find and they did. Salim came back safe and sound. to his mother.

Characters/People edit see section history

  • Ted: A child with aspergers syndrome. His mind runs differently than everyone else's. Ted is the main character of a book. He is smart and can't take jokes. Ted takes all jokes seriously.
  • Kat or Katrina: Kat is Ted's older sister. Sometimes she smokes cigarettes. Kat sometimes gets exasperated with her brother's behavior, but Kat always comes around to love him. Kat and Ted go to uncover the mystery of their lost cousin, Salim. Kat is like any teen today.
  • Salim: Salim is the lost cousin of Kat's and Ted. He went up on the London Eye and never came back down. Kat and Ted have to figure out what happend to their beloved cousin. Salim was in for a visit, because Salim's mother and him were on their way to New York. Salim and his mother wanted to check up on their closest relatives, and stay with them a bit, but they end up staying a little longer than planned.
  • Aunt Gloria: Aunt Gloria is Salim's mother. Aunt Gloria becomes frantic in this book when she finds out her son is missing. Aunt Gloria smokes and Ted's father always says that she leaves a trail of a storm when she leaves. Aunt Gloria is very emotional and high-strung. She is selfish and does not listen to Salim.
  • Marcus: Salim's best friend from his boarding school. He was called a Paki boy, even though he was not Pakistani. Salim helped him become popular.
  • Rashid: Salim's father - a surgeon. Lives in Manchester and is separated from Salim's mother. Salim stays with him every other weekend.
  • Mr Shepherd: Mr. Shepherd is like Ted's personal guidance counselor.
  • Christy: A man Ted and Kat meet.
  • Mary Celeste: Ship that went missing.
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Setting & Locations edit see section history

  • London: The setting was all over London. It was at the London Eye, on the Tube (an underground railway in London), at a scooter show, outside a bar, and at Ted and Kat's house.
  • New York
  • Manchester
  • Manhattan

First Sentence edit see section history

My favorite thing to do in London is to fly the Eye.

Table of Contents edit see section history

1. A Giant Bicycle Wheel in the Sky
2. News of a Hurricane
3. The Hurricane Approaches
4. The Hurricane makes Landfall
5. Night Talk
6. We Go to the Eye
7. The Wheel Turns
8. What Goes Up Doesn't Necessarily Come Down
9. Dodos, Brigantines, and Lords
10. Love-Hate
11. Margins of Error
12. Another Fine Mess
13. The Eye of the Hurricane
14. Eight Theories
15. Infinity
16. Cloud Cover
17. Lightning Strikes
18. The Ninth Theory
19. The Boy on the Train
20. Eavesdropping
21. Mix and Match
22. Word Game
23. Katastrophe
24. Bingo
25. The TV Crew
26. The Coriolis Effect
27. Biker Hell
28. Meetings
29. Pursuit
30. The Road to Nowhere
31. Tornado Touchdown Time
32. Solar Wind
33. The Sound of the Storm
34. Smoke
35. The boy on the Train Again
36. Weather Detection
37. Salim Supreme
38. Retracing the Steps
39. Night Rain
40. After the Storm
41. The Last turn of the Wheel

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

  • Mystery: A mystery is a fiction or realistic fiction book or novel. Most mysteries have lots of suspicion in them and they usually make readers curious. They also allow you to make predictions about how the mystery is solved or what happens in the book in general.
  • Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover: Don't judge a book by it's cover is a motif in this story. In the book Kat judges his little brother by his cover and she thought that Ted was weird or not right. He had a syndrome that helped him memorize things and he thinks a ton. In the end when Ted had figured out a lot of the mystery she realizeed that he was not so bad after all.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Siobhan Dowd (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: David Fickling Books
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN: 9780385612661
Page Count: 336

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