Seven years after they first came together, the members of the Black Hand Gang meet up again. They find much has changed. Whilst they cherish their shared past, they discover they have chosen different paths in life, and are preparing for adult life in different ways.

Frank, Angela, Ralph and Keith, known together as the Black Hand Gang, prove their skill as detectives during four exciting episodes in which they uncover a forger, capture a burglar and enlist the aid of the local police when things get a bit sticky. Every story has illustrations which provide the clues discovered by the Gang. All the necessary clues are shown so you can be a detective with them. But you have to be sharp to keep up with the Black Hand Gang! As the Gang tracks down the criminals, you can keep a score of clues you get right and add them up at the end of the book.

Grace and her family return to Kenya from England, where they have been living for quite some time. Youns Grace joins a girls' boarding school in Kenya. While her parents are worried she might not adjust to the new system, for Grace and the other girls at Lina School life is full of action, fun and adventure.

The Black Hand Gang is a neighbourhood group of young Kenyans, which meets in the eastern part of Nairobi. The gang members, Onyango, Waithaka, his sister Jane, V.J. Patel and Hassan make a lot of friends trying to help other people. The story is intended as a supplementary text for children fluent in reading, to encourage reading for pleasure.

Billy is an uneducated quick witted lad from South East London. Roger is his middle class counterpart from a leafy suburb and training to be an architect. Their unlikely friendship and resultant partnership leads to a bank robbery, the proceeds of which is used as seed capital to form BHG a window cleaning business. Window cleaning is intended mainly as a front for further thieving. But Billy discovers that a successful business brings it's own rewards. Until a holiday to the Greek island of Zante puts some serious criminal temptation in their path. They kidnap the body of a Saint.

Edward is preparing to visit his cousins Ben and Tim during the school holidays. But Misa, their only cow, disappears on the eve of his travels, throwing his plans into doubt and setting in motion a chain of exciting events that are related in this book and in The boys in Kakamega and A gang called Musumbiji.