Wendy Milton – författare

The body of Ben Haversham''s Uncle Izzy vanishes and Ben, although he attended the funeral, suspects that his uncle is still alive. He''s told that his uncle was working undercover to bring to justice a group of iconoclasts who destroyed the town''s monument, the Big Prawn. 

Neil''s mother tells him that Uncle Rex "lives in the past", by which she means that he loves old things. But does Uncle Rex live in the past literally? Where does the stock in his bric-a-brac shop come from? And why is the shop nearly always shut?     

In his aunt''s attic Sam Pendlebury finds finds a diary in which his grandfather, a convicted murderer, professes his innocence. There''s a watch, too, with a weird inscription suggesting that his grandfather has gone back in Time to prove his innocence.