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Issue Details: First known date: 1957... 1957 Gull's Point and Pineapple
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A story about the McGee and Hamilton children during their holidays at their summer house, Gull's Point, which overlooks the sea. The five 'McHam' children break Mrs. Hamilton's new beach umbrella and need to earn money to replace it. They find work helping out at the local lemonade factory. The McHams are keen to learn about how soft drinks are made, but they also learn that there is a mystery surrounding the pineapple drink.

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  • Second book featuring the so-called 'McHams', a group of friends consisting of three Hamilton children and two McGees, and sequel to Adventure at Gull's Point.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Epworth Press ,       1957 .
      Extent: 152 p., [1] leaf of platesp.
      Description: illus., map
      Reprinted: 1964
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y separately published work icon Adventure at Gull's Point Joyce Nicholson , London : Epworth Press , 1955 Z836724 1955 single work children's fiction children's mystery

'This story...has for its background one of those innumerable golden, sandy beaches that are found in so many places around the thousands of miles of the great Australian coastline. It is the sort of beach where Australian boys and girls go regularly to spend their holidays, and in this book we read of all the fun and adventures that five children can have on such a holiday.

'On this particular holiday, the five "McHams", as they call themselves, made up of three Hamiltons and two McGees, decide to rebuild for their own use an old derelict boatshed. But there they strike trouble. What is the mystery about the old boatshed? Why does a very evil-looking man so obviously want them out of the way? There is action, suspense, and quick thinking on the part of the two families, before the mystery is finally solved.'

(from Dust Jacket).
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  • Mornington Peninsula (Port Phillip Bay), Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne, Victoria,
  • Portsea, Mornington Peninsula (Port Phillip Bay), Mornington Peninsula, Melbourne, Victoria,
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