Madame Charmaine

By David Tish

Madame Charmaine chronicles the adventure one summer of four close friends, three boys and a girl, all 12 years old, who discover a locked “treasure chest” half buried in the sandy shore of the Missouri River following a spring flood.

As they play detective and try to find out who buried the chest and what its strange content means, they meet up with a tall, mysterious woman in a turban and soon find out that they are playing a dangerous game, one that threatens to bury them alive in a grave of their own digging.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Tish
• Release date: Apr 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310048364

David Tish

David Tish is a retired newspaper reporter, editor and columnist who has won numerous writing awards. He is a Nebraska native and a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He has four sons and nine grandchildren, and he lives on an acreage near Tieton, Washington, with his wife, Mary, and their four dogs. When he isn't writing, you will find him running his border collie, Chek (short for Chekhov), in the sport of agility, or tending to his garden.

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