The Mountain Bike Mystery

About the Book

When eleven year old Tony falls sick with chicken pox he spends much of his time in the bedroom that he shares with his older brother, Jack, looking out of the bedroom window through his father’s binoculars. When Jack was sick he had observed the movements of two shady looking men who appeared to be exchanging bikes, one leaving a bike hidden in the ditch at the front of the house and the other collecting it later. When the second man, “Number Two”, fails to collect a bike left in the ditch the boys decide to hide it in their meeting house, a shed at the bottom of the garden, and examine it the next day. But there never seems to be an opportunity to look at the bike and tell Mum and Dad what is going on. Eventually they tell their story and their suspicions to Dad who contacts the local RCMP. The boys are drawn into a mysterious web and finally help the RCMP capture a gang of drug smugglers.

About the Author

Gerald grew up in war-torn Britain during WWII. He watched the RAF spitfires fight the Battle of Britain in the skies overhead and was directly affected by the fighting when the family home was bombed and they had to move, only to find the move ultimately brought them in the direct path of the V-bombs aimed at London. When the war was over he attended the two oldest schools in England. Gerald was in the British army before moving to Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) where he was a Detective Inspector in the police. He moved his family to Canada in 1967 and in 1970 they moved from Montreal to White Rock a small community south of Vancouver where he still lives today.