Dimsie rounded the bend in the stairs and saw no one there. For a moment a slight sensation of eeriness seized her, she had been so sure that someone was coming down, and before she could recover from the feeling, a white, shapeless form with a peaked hood flitted across the top of the stair and vanished into the hall. Dimsie's heart lurched unpleasantly, but she neither paused nor ran away. There must be some explanation, and she meant to discover what it was.

The explanation was not a ghostly one at all. The unquenchable Hilary Garth, who hitches joyrides in the boots of cars and does many of the wicked things the younger Dimsie would have indulged in, has assumed a disguise to smuggle forbidden cosmetics and other such things into school. Not for herself, but to sell to the more vain members of the Upper School, and for a good cause, too. But Dimsie is Head Girl, and as such feels it is her duty to intervene and put a stop to such flagrant flouting of school rules. And when she discovers Hilary cramming the fat Dolly into an incredible Instant Slimming Garment, Dimsie's amazement knows no bounds, and she leaps into action!

This is the seventh story about the immensely popular and good hearted Dimsie, told with Dorita Fairlie Bruce's customary zest and enthusiasm.

ISBN: 0 86391 016 5
220pp Hardback
Our RRP £6.95