A very dated 'ripping yarn' outlining the events of one term at the fictitious Sheldrake Grammar School in London, set in the 1950s. Fifteen year old Rex Milligan and his friend J I G 'Jigger' Johnson have a series of interlocking and somewhat unlikely adventures in which coincidence plays a large part, there are elements of farce, and all comes right in the end. The author used a similar formula with his much better known Jennings series. If you like them, you will like this, with the main difference being that Rex, the narrator, is a somewhat bland character in comparison with the well-intentioned, blundering Jennings. The illustrations in my edition of the book are crude, stiff and horrible. ( )