Published: November 2009.
Saucers Over the Moor by Malcolm Saville, the eighth Lone Pine story, opens with Penny returning to the Gay Dolphin Hotel in Rye at the beginning of the summer holidays. This summer is special as her parents, whom she has not seen for three years, are returning soon from India.
The first night home a light in the sky puzzles the scientific Jon but he is soon involved in Penny’s news as her parents have rented a house in the West Country and suggest that the cousins join them for a holiday in the middle of Dartmoor.
Included in the invitation are their friends from Shropshire and, after a flurry of telephone calls and rushed arrangements, they leave the old town of Rye and travel west, meeting up with David, the twins and Peter in Exeter. The strange apparition in Rye appears to have travelled west as well, spotted by a local ‘cub’ reporter.
This time Dartmoor hosts the adventure as the reporter joins the Lone Piners to try to solve the mystery of these ‘flying saucers’.
As well as a new introduction by Mary Cadogan, and the publishing history by John Allsup, the GGBP edition of Saucers Over the Moor will have an article by Patrick Tubby (another Malcolm Saville expert) on the location.