“I’m glad David got through his adventures safely. They were very scary.” A bright flash of lightning lit up the darkness and showed me the horrible truth – the stairs came to a sudden stop, and if I had taken one more step I would have plunged to my death upon the flagstones far below. When David Balfour visits his uncle Ebenezer, he hopes for some good news about his inheritance. Instead he finds himself at the centre of a deadly plot: he is kidnapped and put on board a ship bound for America. ...