In Greenmantle, by John Buchan, Hannay, a British officer, was on a secret mission in Turkey during First World War, and Britain send him there because it suspects that Germany is planning for a religion war led by a Muslim prophet, called Greenmantle and has four ministers, with the aid of a Ger...

In Greenmantle, by John Buchan, Hannay, a British officer, was on a secret mission in Turkey during First World War, and Britain send him there because it suspects that Germany is planning for a religion war led by a Muslim prophet, called Greenmantle and has four ministers, with the aid of a Ger...

I am trying to find the title of a children's book where a magic ointment was rubbed on inanimate objects (chairs, table etc.) bringing them to life. I read this book in the mid to late 1970s. Would appreciate it if anyone could identify.

I'm reading Agatha Christie's book "Dumb witness", so there is a passage after poirot and Hastings have their lunch and head to the church. Though an attractive specimen of what the guidebook calls Early Perp., it had been so conscientiously restored in Victorian vandal days that little of inter...