174 pages, translated from the French by John Buchanan-Brown. Reprint. The book is ex school library. Both the front and back hinge have been reinforced with masking tape. there's a canceloled stamp on the half title page and another on the back paste down. The end paper carries both a date due slip and a library pocket, the jacket two small shelving labels.The faults are aesthetic and limited to the preliminaries and end paper.Overall a clean and solid copy. "A bunch of scruffy urchin kids in the backstreets of Paris outwit thieves to uncover the whereabouts of millions of francs stolen from the Paris-Ventimiglia express. Gaby is the leader, but it is super-cool Marion with her collection of stray dogs who is the heart of the gang. It all begins when a local villain offers the children a fortune for their 'horse' - a headless rocking horse, given old tricycle wheels that they 'ride' down the steep cobbled street, but they don't want to part with it. Then, a few days later, the horse is stolen, and so begins an adventure that is full of twists and turns, leading to a satisfying conclusion when the villains receive their comeuppance."