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Lake of Skulls / by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell.

by Stewart, Paul, 1955-

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New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004.

Knights and knighthood -- Juvenile fiction.

Stewart, Paul, 1955- Knight's story ; bk. 1.

136 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

An unbonded knight traveling as a "free lance" meets more than his share of trouble when he signs on with Lord Big Nose to recover a crown from the Lake of Skulls. Behind me, a loud, beastlike roar went up. I turned to see a great hulk of a man -- all hairy jowls and is fists were clenched. His bloodshot eyes were wild. "Come on, if you think you're hard enough!" he was bellowing. Here we go again! I thought. Why do I always seem to end up in this type of a place? You'd think I'd have learned by now. All I'd wanted was a quiet drink. Was that too much to ask? Was it? Given the day I'd had so far, maybe it was. heaving gut -- lumbering from leg to leg in a slow battle-jig. I recognized him at once.

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