by John Bellairs · tapa dura · ISBN 9783453186897
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«Das Geheimnis der Zauberuhr» is the young adult fantasy novel by John Bellairs, published by Heyne in hardcover, in German.
Orphan Lewis Barnavelt moves into the house of his uncle Jonathan, a magician, and discovers a building full of corridors and unexplored rooms. But the previous owner, the sorcerer Isaac Izard, left a clock hidden in the walls: its ticking, audible every night, marks the time left before the end of the world.
First novel in the Lewis Barnavelt series. German translation of The House with a Clock in Its Walls, originally published in 1973.
For young adult and adult readers seeking a mystery fantasy with magic, old houses, and an unsettling atmosphere.
John Anthony Bellairs was an American author best known for his fantasy novel The Face in the Frost and many Gothic mystery novels for children featuring the characters Lewis Barnavelt, Rose Rita Pottinger, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday. Most of his books were illustrated by Edward Gorey. At the time of his death, Bellairs' books had sold a quarter-million copies in hard cover and more than a million and a half copies in paperback.
