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* AlasPoorVillain: Cornered on the Tangle by Gary Deacon, Tan tells the bully the police suspect him of Ian Bain's murder. When the bully flees in panic, Tan can’t help but pity his tormenter.tormentor.
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On the Tangle, overgrown site of Market Fulford's demolished railway station, Tan, with Simon Playfair, finds several baby white mice - who seem oddly calm around humans. Nearby lie the neatly lain bones of what appears to have been a cat.
Tan, Simon, and Simon’s younger sister Diane, tied up and left in the disused railway tunnel by fourteen-year-old Gary Deacon and gang, find a human skeleton. Report to the police sees the tunnel cordoned off, with the ''Market Fulford Gazette'' denied access, Tan and friends tell of their finding to reporter Liz Gordon - who learns the skeleton, a maverick builder named Ian Bain, to have died surprisingly recently. Furthermore, Tan’s gerbils, and Simon’s guinea pigs, seem surprisingly scared of the mice - each of which has an unusually long front claw…
Tan, Simon, and Simon’s younger sister Diane, tied up and left in the disused railway tunnel by fourteen-year-old Gary Deacon and gang, find a human skeleton. Report to the police sees the tunnel cordoned off, with the ''Market Fulford Gazette'' denied access, Tan and friends tell of their finding to reporter Liz Gordon - who learns the skeleton, a maverick builder named Ian Bain, to have died surprisingly recently. Furthermore, Tan’s gerbils, and Simon’s guinea pigs, seem surprisingly scared of the mice - each of which has an unusually long front claw…
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On the Tangle, overgrown site of Market Fulford's demolished railway station, Tan, with Simon Playfair, finds several baby white mice - who seem oddly calm around humans. Nearby lie Supposing the neatly lain bones of what appears mice to have been a cat.
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Tan, Simon, and Simon’s younger sister Diane, tied up and left in the disused railway tunnel by fourteen-year-old Gary Deacon and gang, find a human skeleton.Report Tan's report to the police sees the tunnel cordoned off, with off. With the ''Market Fulford Gazette'' denied access, Tan and friends tell tells of their his finding to reporter Liz Gordon - who learns the skeleton, a maverick builder named Ian Bain, to have died surprisingly recently. Furthermore, Tan’s Tan's gerbils, and Simon’s Simon's guinea pigs, seem surprisingly scared of the mice - each of which has an unusually long front claw…
Tan, Simon, and Simon’s younger sister Diane, tied up and left in the disused railway tunnel by fourteen-year-old Gary Deacon and gang, find a human skeleton.
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From a comet-shattered planet in the orbit of Betelgeuse flee numerous tiny vessels. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Tristan “Tan” Hanley, having fed his gerbils, sees a shooting star.
On the Tangle, overgrown site of Market Fulford’s demolished railway station, Tan, with Simon Playfair, finds several baby white mice - who seem oddly calm around humans. Nearby lie the neatly lain bones of what appears to have been a cat.
Tan, Simon, and Simon’s younger sister Diane, tied up and left in the disused railway tunnel by fourteen-year-old Gary Deacon and gang, find a human skeleton. Report to the police sees the tunnel cordoned off, with the ‘’Market Fulford Gazette’’ denied access, Tan and friends tell of their finding to reporter Liz Gordon - who learns the skeleton, a maverick builder named Ian Bain, to have died surprisingly recently. Furthermore, Tan’s gerbils, and Simon’s guinea pigs, seem surprisingly scared of the mice - each of which has an unusually long front claw…
On the Tangle, overgrown site of Market Fulford’s demolished railway station, Tan, with Simon Playfair, finds several baby white mice - who seem oddly calm around humans. Nearby lie the neatly lain bones of what appears to have been a cat.
Tan, Simon, and Simon’s younger sister Diane, tied up and left in the disused railway tunnel by fourteen-year-old Gary Deacon and gang, find a human skeleton. Report to the police sees the tunnel cordoned off, with the ‘’Market Fulford Gazette’’ denied access, Tan and friends tell of their finding to reporter Liz Gordon - who learns the skeleton, a maverick builder named Ian Bain, to have died surprisingly recently. Furthermore, Tan’s gerbils, and Simon’s guinea pigs, seem surprisingly scared of the mice - each of which has an unusually long front claw…
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From a comet-shattered planet in the orbit of Betelgeuse flee numerous tiny vessels. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Tristan “Tan” "Tan" Hanley, having fed his gerbils, sees a shooting star.
On the Tangle, overgrown site of MarketFulford’s Fulford's demolished railway station, Tan, with Simon Playfair, finds several baby white mice - who seem oddly calm around humans. Nearby lie the neatly lain bones of what appears to have been a cat.
Tan, Simon, and Simon’s younger sister Diane, tied up and left in the disused railway tunnel by fourteen-year-old Gary Deacon and gang, find a human skeleton. Report to the police sees the tunnel cordoned off, with the‘’Market ''Market Fulford Gazette’’ Gazette'' denied access, Tan and friends tell of their finding to reporter Liz Gordon - who learns the skeleton, a maverick builder named Ian Bain, to have died surprisingly recently. Furthermore, Tan’s gerbils, and Simon’s guinea pigs, seem surprisingly scared of the mice - each of which has an unusually long front claw…
On the Tangle, overgrown site of Market
Tan, Simon, and Simon’s younger sister Diane, tied up and left in the disused railway tunnel by fourteen-year-old Gary Deacon and gang, find a human skeleton. Report to the police sees the tunnel cordoned off, with the
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A 1985 novel by Creator/RobertSwindells.
From a comet-shattered planet in the orbit of Betelgeuse flee numerous tiny vessels. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Tristan “Tan” Hanley, having fed his gerbils, sees a shooting star.
On the Tangle, overgrown site of Market Fulford’s demolished railway station, Tan, with Simon Playfair, finds several baby white mice - who seem oddly calm around humans. Nearby lie the neatly lain bones of what appears to have been a cat.
Tan, Simon, and Simon’s younger sister Diane, tied up and left in the disused railway tunnel by fourteen-year-old Gary Deacon and gang, find a human skeleton. Report to the police sees the tunnel cordoned off, with the ‘’Market Fulford Gazette’’ denied access, Tan and friends tell of their finding to reporter Liz Gordon - who learns the skeleton, a maverick builder named Ian Bain, to have died surprisingly recently. Furthermore, Tan’s gerbils, and Simon’s guinea pigs, seem surprisingly scared of the mice - each of which has an unusually long front claw…
!!This novel provides examples of:
*AbandonedArea: "The Tangle," site of Market Fulford's demolished railway station, is overgrown with waist-high grass and littered with discarded furniture.
*AlasPoorVillain: Cornered on the Tangle by Gary Deacon, Tan tells the bully the police suspect him of Ian Bain's murder. When the bully flees in panic, Tan can’t help but pity his tormenter.
*AlienAnimals: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. While the creatures on the Tangle look like white mice, they’re improbably calm around humans. Furthermore, each has an elongated front claw.
*AlienAutopsy: To the local polytechnic, Liz Gordon brings several of the Betelgusian mice. A lab tech agrees to have a poke around inside one - and comes back white-faced.
*ArmiesAreUseless: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Tan's older sister Anne's boyfriend, Pilot Officer Tim Bixby, having [[spoiler: saved Tan from an attack by the mice, tells commanding officer Superintendent Fisk, who, without mention of mice, tells his superiors of civil unrest. Several troops, from the local power station, scatter the mice]].
*AwesomeMcCoolname: Acquainted with nice-smiled reporter Liz Gordon, Tan wishes his name was Jeff Sabre, ace photographer.
*BigDamnHeroes: Alone in the tunnel, Diane searches for mice specimens, and, by a vast living carpet of the tiny Betelgusian predators, is swamped. Just in time, Tan and Liz arrive to swat the mice and lift Diane to safety.
*BiologicalWeaponsSolveEverything: At the polytechnic, Liz learns of [[spoiler: ectromelia, or "mouse-pox" - highly contagious and only harmful to mice]]. Mr Farnsworth, a lab-supplying mouse breeder whom Liz Gordon’s interview defended from hate mail, [[spoiler: agrees to make some]]. To the Tangle, Liz and Tan [[spoiler: return the infected mice - which, soon enough, infect the others]].
*BigSisterBully: Tan recalls how Anne used to physically bully him.
*BizarreAlienBiology: After the white mice he found on the Tangle breed unexpectedly early, Tan sees them, via an elongated front claw, clump together to form a mass the size of a kitten. This process enables the mice, en masse, [[spoiler: to open doors and devour prey]].
*TheBully: Fourteen-year-old Gary Deacon, with his eleven-strong gang, regard the Tangle as their territory. On overhearing an insolent remark, he has them tie up Tan, Simon Diane and leave them in the disused tunnel.
*CameFromTheSky: Having seen a falling star one night, Tan eventually suspects it to have carried to Earth the mice.
*CollectorOfTheStrange: On discovery of a dead cat’s strangely neatly arranged bones, Simon takes the skull for his collection.
*DemBones: In the disused tunnel, Tan, Simon and Diane find the fully clothed skeleton of Glaswegian builder Ian Bain.
*EarthShatteringKaboom: A comet shatters Betelgeuse's thirteenth planet.
*EerilyOutOfPlaceObject: An abandoned mattress holds a clutch of baby white mice.
*ForebodingFleeingFlock: Around the white mice, Tan’s gerbils are disconcertingly timid. Likewise, Simon's guinea pigs - prompting him to release the mice.
*FromStrayToPet: Tan and Simon each take home several of the white mice.
*TheGadfly: Tan can’t seem to stop making wisecracks to his parents and older sister Anne.
*GhostStory: The ghost of a porter who killed himself by lying on the tracks, is said to haunt the disused railway tunnel. A milkman, surprised by a blurry, man-sized white shape, supposes it to be a ghost.
*HonourBeforeReason: After seeing the reported skeleton, WPC Carter recalls Tan’s mention of Deacon and friends having tied up himself, Simon and Diane. With a surprising resolve to somehow deal with the bully himself, Tan dismisses the incident as fun and games.
*HordeOfAlienLocusts: Across space, the Betelgeuse mice seem to have come mainly to feed and breed.
*InformationWantsToBeFree: With the police strangely reluctant to discuss Ian Bain's mysterious death, ''Market Fulford Gazette'' reporter Liz Gordon, who maintains the papers' duty to truth, instead interviews Tan.
*IntrepidReporter: ''Gazette'' reporter Liz Gordon, refused information about Ian Bain’s unusual death, interviews the skeleton’s young finders. Through acquaintance with Tan, she learns of the bizarre white mice; gets some specimens, and, at the local polytechnic, persuades a lab technician to open one up.
*ItCanThink: When [[spoiler: clumped together,]] the Betelgusian mice can [[spoiler: open doors]].
*NotMeThisTime: On a farm, hundreds of chickens are reduced to bones and feathers. Foxes, noted to kill more prey than they can eat - and as being unable to open locked doors - are ruled out.
*OopNorth: A mention of regional newscast ''Look North''
*OurMonstersAreWeird: Extraterrestrial white mice, via a long front claw, group together in a man-sized swarm, allowing them to open doors and enfold prey.
*MistakenForUndead: A milkman sees a man-sized amorphous white shape pass seamlessly through a fence. It’s actually [[spoiler: a grouped swarm of Betelgeusian mice]].
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Having found the skeleton, Tan, from a nearby phone box, calls the local police station. Police Constable Stables and WPC Carter readily investigate.
** While Tan's parents dismiss his outlandish fears, ''Gazette'' reporter Liz Gordon, suspicious of a cover-up, helps him investigate.
*ShoutOut: To ''Look North'' and ''Series/TopOfThePops''.
*SinisterSubway: The Tangle, site of a demolished railway station, sports a decidedly spooky-looking tunnel.
*SleeperStarship: From Betelgeuse’s comet-shattered thirteenth planet, numerous "tiny arks" carry "deep-frozen" passengers.
*StrippedToTheBone: The late Ian Bain's landlady claims he left only recently - so why is he now a skeleton? And what could have StrippedToTheBone a thousand penned chickens?
*TheSmartGuy: Simon Playfair wants to be some kind of scientist when he grows up.
*TheSwarm: When hunting, the Betelgusian mice amass in a dense swarm, which then, via each mouse’s elongated front claw, joins in a man-sized amorphous mass.
A 1985 novel by Creator/RobertSwindells.
From a comet-shattered planet in the orbit of Betelgeuse flee numerous tiny vessels. Meanwhile, twelve-year-old Tristan “Tan” Hanley, having fed his gerbils, sees a shooting star.
On the Tangle, overgrown site of Market Fulford’s demolished railway station, Tan, with Simon Playfair, finds several baby white mice - who seem oddly calm around humans. Nearby lie the neatly lain bones of what appears to have been a cat.
Tan, Simon, and Simon’s younger sister Diane, tied up and left in the disused railway tunnel by fourteen-year-old Gary Deacon and gang, find a human skeleton. Report to the police sees the tunnel cordoned off, with the ‘’Market Fulford Gazette’’ denied access, Tan and friends tell of their finding to reporter Liz Gordon - who learns the skeleton, a maverick builder named Ian Bain, to have died surprisingly recently. Furthermore, Tan’s gerbils, and Simon’s guinea pigs, seem surprisingly scared of the mice - each of which has an unusually long front claw…
!!This novel provides examples of:
*AbandonedArea: "The Tangle," site of Market Fulford's demolished railway station, is overgrown with waist-high grass and littered with discarded furniture.
*AlasPoorVillain: Cornered on the Tangle by Gary Deacon, Tan tells the bully the police suspect him of Ian Bain's murder. When the bully flees in panic, Tan can’t help but pity his tormenter.
*AlienAnimals: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. While the creatures on the Tangle look like white mice, they’re improbably calm around humans. Furthermore, each has an elongated front claw.
*AlienAutopsy: To the local polytechnic, Liz Gordon brings several of the Betelgusian mice. A lab tech agrees to have a poke around inside one - and comes back white-faced.
*ArmiesAreUseless: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Tan's older sister Anne's boyfriend, Pilot Officer Tim Bixby, having [[spoiler: saved Tan from an attack by the mice, tells commanding officer Superintendent Fisk, who, without mention of mice, tells his superiors of civil unrest. Several troops, from the local power station, scatter the mice]].
*AwesomeMcCoolname: Acquainted with nice-smiled reporter Liz Gordon, Tan wishes his name was Jeff Sabre, ace photographer.
*BigDamnHeroes: Alone in the tunnel, Diane searches for mice specimens, and, by a vast living carpet of the tiny Betelgusian predators, is swamped. Just in time, Tan and Liz arrive to swat the mice and lift Diane to safety.
*BiologicalWeaponsSolveEverything: At the polytechnic, Liz learns of [[spoiler: ectromelia, or "mouse-pox" - highly contagious and only harmful to mice]]. Mr Farnsworth, a lab-supplying mouse breeder whom Liz Gordon’s interview defended from hate mail, [[spoiler: agrees to make some]]. To the Tangle, Liz and Tan [[spoiler: return the infected mice - which, soon enough, infect the others]].
*BigSisterBully: Tan recalls how Anne used to physically bully him.
*BizarreAlienBiology: After the white mice he found on the Tangle breed unexpectedly early, Tan sees them, via an elongated front claw, clump together to form a mass the size of a kitten. This process enables the mice, en masse, [[spoiler: to open doors and devour prey]].
*TheBully: Fourteen-year-old Gary Deacon, with his eleven-strong gang, regard the Tangle as their territory. On overhearing an insolent remark, he has them tie up Tan, Simon Diane and leave them in the disused tunnel.
*CameFromTheSky: Having seen a falling star one night, Tan eventually suspects it to have carried to Earth the mice.
*CollectorOfTheStrange: On discovery of a dead cat’s strangely neatly arranged bones, Simon takes the skull for his collection.
*DemBones: In the disused tunnel, Tan, Simon and Diane find the fully clothed skeleton of Glaswegian builder Ian Bain.
*EarthShatteringKaboom: A comet shatters Betelgeuse's thirteenth planet.
*EerilyOutOfPlaceObject: An abandoned mattress holds a clutch of baby white mice.
*ForebodingFleeingFlock: Around the white mice, Tan’s gerbils are disconcertingly timid. Likewise, Simon's guinea pigs - prompting him to release the mice.
*FromStrayToPet: Tan and Simon each take home several of the white mice.
*TheGadfly: Tan can’t seem to stop making wisecracks to his parents and older sister Anne.
*GhostStory: The ghost of a porter who killed himself by lying on the tracks, is said to haunt the disused railway tunnel. A milkman, surprised by a blurry, man-sized white shape, supposes it to be a ghost.
*HonourBeforeReason: After seeing the reported skeleton, WPC Carter recalls Tan’s mention of Deacon and friends having tied up himself, Simon and Diane. With a surprising resolve to somehow deal with the bully himself, Tan dismisses the incident as fun and games.
*HordeOfAlienLocusts: Across space, the Betelgeuse mice seem to have come mainly to feed and breed.
*InformationWantsToBeFree: With the police strangely reluctant to discuss Ian Bain's mysterious death, ''Market Fulford Gazette'' reporter Liz Gordon, who maintains the papers' duty to truth, instead interviews Tan.
*IntrepidReporter: ''Gazette'' reporter Liz Gordon, refused information about Ian Bain’s unusual death, interviews the skeleton’s young finders. Through acquaintance with Tan, she learns of the bizarre white mice; gets some specimens, and, at the local polytechnic, persuades a lab technician to open one up.
*ItCanThink: When [[spoiler: clumped together,]] the Betelgusian mice can [[spoiler: open doors]].
*NotMeThisTime: On a farm, hundreds of chickens are reduced to bones and feathers. Foxes, noted to kill more prey than they can eat - and as being unable to open locked doors - are ruled out.
*OopNorth: A mention of regional newscast ''Look North''
*OurMonstersAreWeird: Extraterrestrial white mice, via a long front claw, group together in a man-sized swarm, allowing them to open doors and enfold prey.
*MistakenForUndead: A milkman sees a man-sized amorphous white shape pass seamlessly through a fence. It’s actually [[spoiler: a grouped swarm of Betelgeusian mice]].
*ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** Having found the skeleton, Tan, from a nearby phone box, calls the local police station. Police Constable Stables and WPC Carter readily investigate.
** While Tan's parents dismiss his outlandish fears, ''Gazette'' reporter Liz Gordon, suspicious of a cover-up, helps him investigate.
*ShoutOut: To ''Look North'' and ''Series/TopOfThePops''.
*SinisterSubway: The Tangle, site of a demolished railway station, sports a decidedly spooky-looking tunnel.
*SleeperStarship: From Betelgeuse’s comet-shattered thirteenth planet, numerous "tiny arks" carry "deep-frozen" passengers.
*StrippedToTheBone: The late Ian Bain's landlady claims he left only recently - so why is he now a skeleton? And what could have StrippedToTheBone a thousand penned chickens?
*TheSmartGuy: Simon Playfair wants to be some kind of scientist when he grows up.
*TheSwarm: When hunting, the Betelgusian mice amass in a dense swarm, which then, via each mouse’s elongated front claw, joins in a man-sized amorphous mass.
