The Pickle King

Written by Rebecca Promitzer

Narrated by Laurence Bouvard

A gang of unlikely friends are thrown together one wet summer in the small town of Elbow, famous for only two things: chilli pickle and rain. Already bored, they hope something will turn up, but what none of them expect is a real-life dead body with a missing eyeball! Soon the mystery of who killed Herman, owner of the giant pickle factory, becomes a crazy adventure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: W. F. Howes Ltd
• Release date: Mar 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781407453842

Reviews for The Pickle King

[iand.b4 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book stars a girl whose parents are either dead or in a mental institution. She and her friends a rich snotty kid, a computer nerd, two siblings who are constantly together because there parents can't afford a sitter, and a kid who lives in the bad side of town (his brother and father are convicts). The story starts when Bea (the kid whith dead/insane parents) and the bad kid Sam find and photograph a dead man who is missing an eye. This leads to creepy surgeon dropping off a bag of intestines at sam's house. Then the computer nerd annalyzes the photos by cross refernencing with photos and finds that the body is that off a famous man who founded a huge pickle company. The man mysteriously disapeared somewhere and was never heard of again. he also finds that the intestines are the man's. He also finds that they have been used by another person. Then the kid's start looking for clues at the town dump a hand randomly pulls all of them into a subteranean city in the garbage. all of the people there are deformed(they have missing limbs eyes and organs) The man says that all of them have a merk on there back and none of them can remember how they got it. The mark is actually the logo of the factory that runs near the town. They bought the famous mans pickle and bottle factory when he mystireously disapeared. Then the rich kid identify's the logo with the mark of the secret clan her dad is a member of. they deside to invetigate by hiding in his trunk when he goes to a meeting. They sneek inside and see a secret entrance. eventually they come upon a room where a skinless man is sitting on a throne. he has the arm of the man that pulled them into the garbage city. he says that he is the founder of the town and has been staying alive by using the organs of people who discover his lair. he shows them a freezer full of random bits and bots of people. The one eye he has is that of the famous pickle man. He says that the revenue from the company is what he pays his surgeon friend to get himself lorgans. he then goes on a bit and says that skin is impossible to replace so he has to stay in his underground lair. the story ends when his dead sister reapears as a ghost and sia she has missed him greatly and asks for him to join her in death. he agrees and the kids are let free. I found this book very deep and enjoyable.

[prkcs · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

During an endlessly rainy summer in the town of Elbow, twelve-year-old Bea and her misfit friends solve an unlikely mystery involving an unidentified dead man who's missing an eye, an evil surgeon, a ring shaped like an old castle, a bag of smelly intestines, and a helpful ghost.

[rata_4 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A group of children set about solving a mystery that includes a dead man (Herman - who once was company director of the Pickle Company) who's missing an eye, a sinister surgeon and his accomplice, a man who is kept alive for over two hundred years. A good read (although at some times monotonous) with lots of different storylines and characters that creatively intertwine with each other while constantly battling the the endless rain, a smelly woofing dog and a nuisance sibling brother.