Billy Bunter and the Blue Mauritius

Only a dozen or so survive of the rare and famous blue "Post Office" Mauritius stamps issued in 1847. Sir Hilton Popper, a governor of Greyfriars School, was the fortunate owner of one £2,000 specimen, which, after lying peacefully in his album for a good many years, suddenly became involved in a series of most startling adventures, leading to its temporary acquisition by Mr. Slim Judson, not a philatelist, but well-known to the police as a collector of other people's property, while, for several days, Billy Bunter, the Owl of the Remove, was another not very rightful possessor.

No one, however, could (or indeed would!) dispute Billy Bunter's ownership of a large and worthless watch, of which he was very proud. Admittedly, it did not go, but the case, said Bunter, was at least 72-carat gold! It was inexplicable, though, that not only Bunter's brassy pocket-watch, but the scarcely valuable silver one of Harry Wharton and Peter Todd's "tin turnip" should at the same time become the object of considerable interest to Slim Judson and his confederates.

To say more would be to reveal the plot, so we leave the reader to the problem of the three stamp-owners and the three pocket-watches, in a well-written story of the true Greyfriars tradition – amusing, exciting and good clean fun.