Patricia Latham
Writing
Known For

Three children try to fight against the destruction of a local historic landmark. They are helped by a group of friendly ghosts.
A Ghost of a Chance

A group of children establish their own zoo in the garden of a disused house, which proves to be the headquarters of a gang of crooks.
The Dog and the Diamonds

Story of how a young Irish boy loses the donkey he has reared from birth.
Tim Driscoll's Donkey

Two stories, in the Scotland Yard Series to show that crime does not pay. This was a compilation of two episodes from the television series Stryker of the Yard (1954) featuring Clifford Evans
Companions in Crime

The unexpected adventures of children on a school cruise to Portugal and North Africa. In Tangier, Steve, whose hobby is detecting, suspects that a parcel carried by another boy is contraband. Steve and his pals get into trouble trying to get hold of the parcel, but, in the process they uncover and foil the plans of a passenger to smuggle a stolen painting back to England.
All at Sea

A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after encountering trouble through his innocent implication in a robbery.