The Paradise Beach Mysteries: Whitehaven Beach

By Cathy Maisano

Megan and Marcus can't wait for the summer holidays to begin at Bexhill-on-Sea, where their own incredible beach hut, Parry, doubles as a high-powered rocket ship. Before long, they are heading for Australia on a thrilling mission. As secret agents, they must confront a dangerous gang to try and save a beautiful beach from certain environmental ruin. When they spot a massive crocodile mysteriously devouring all the famous white soft sand on Whitehaven beach, things start to go seriously wrong. Marcus sees Megan being swallowed by the reptile and does not hesitate to plan a daring rescue operation. Skilfully, he helps her to escape, but as they are planning how to recover the stolen sand, the thieves return and the two young agents find themselves in great danger. Will Whitehaven Beach be lost forever?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cathy Maisano
• Release date: May 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370221318

Cathy Maisano

Cathy Maisano is a cultural researcher who spends her time learning about different places and people. As a child growing up in Australia, her back gate opened directly onto a beach lined with different coloured beach huts and she spent many happy hours playing among them and choosing her favourite one. Nowadays, having travelled to many beaches around the world and researching different physical environments, she has expert knowledge in how environments impact human behaviour and how human behaviour can impact environments. Currently she lives almost quite literally right on a beach in Sydney, Australia with her husband and children.

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Whitehaven Beach

Megan and Marcus can’t wait for the summer holidays to begin at Bexhill-on-Sea, where their own incredible beach hut, Parry, doubles as a high-powered rocket ship. Before long, they are heading for Australia on a thrilling mission. As secret agents, they must confront a dangerous gang to try and save a beautiful beach from certain environmental ruin. When they spot a massive crocodile mysteriously devouring all the famous white soft sand on Whitehaven Beach, things start to go seriously wrong. Marcus sees Megan being swallowed by the reptile and does not hesitate to plan a daring rescue operation. Skilfully, he helps her to escape, but as they are planning how to recover the stolen sand, the thieves return and the two young agents find themselves in great danger. Will Whitehaven Beach be lost forever?

Secret agents everywhere are invited to step inside the amazing Bexhill-On-Sea beach hut of The Paradise Beach Mysteries and join Marcus and Megan Morgan, as they travel at the speed of light to far-away top-rated world beaches, in a quest to save them from environmental ruin.

Whitehaven

Beach

The Paradise Beach Mysteries

Cathy Maisano

Copyright © 2014 by Cathy Maisano

All Rights Reserved

Cathy Maisano has asserted the right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

ISBN 978-1503167353

Edited by Rosemary Bickle

Illustrations by Claire Fletcher

Copyright © 2014

For Gabriel and Francesca

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter One

‘QUICK! Run to Parry!’ Marcus shouted to his little sister.

The rain beat down hard into the rock pool, ending the best-ever crabbing this summer. Megan sprang up, grabbing the bucket of crabs and with her hot pink crocs on, bolted across the large pebbles to their grandparents’ beach hut, 502, Paradise – better known as Parry. She loved spending her school holidays in Bexhill-on-Sea in the south of England. It was the seaside, staying with her grandparents and being a secret agent for EP that all rolled into one ball of excitement in the pit of her stomach. Striding faster toward the beach hut, she kept saying in her head to the rhythm of each step, ‘E-P, E-P, E-P…’ She was so hoping that she and her brother would soon be sent on another mission.

As Marcus hurried over the rocks, he fell into a shallow rock pool and ripped the back of his swimming trunks. Luckily for him, his sister ran faster and the seaside had cleared, so no one was going to see his bare butt. The strong wind whipped at his blond hair, but his Spiderman cap kept the rain out of his eyes. Sure, he was nearly ten, but Spiderman was one of his biggest heroes and this was no ordinary cap. Solving mysteries for EP was so cool and having special gadgets came with the job – it was better than having any touchscreen MP3 player that so many of the guys at school had.

Entering into Parry, he shut the aqua-green door behind him. It almost sent the wooden paddles flying off the pale grey walls. Megan was already drying her long blonde curls.

‘Hot chocolate coming up,’ she said. Undoing the pink polka-dot flask, she poured two cups of warm, milky chocolate. She reached for Gran’s rain-time supplies, as she liked to call them. In a big, fat round custard-coloured tin on the top shelf next to Grandad’s playing cards, lived the marshmallows. She dropped one white and one pink marshmallow into each of their mugs. Marcus was getting out of his trunks beneath his towel, which was tightly wrapped around his waist. He saw his Grandad’s wet, hippy rainbow-striped board shorts hanging on a hook, but opted for his own dry red shorts and T-shirt, before Megan even turned to