USED BOOK. MAY CONTAIN MARK-UP

By Constance M. White

From the cover: “With a father who is a well. known newspaper man and an elder sister a junior reporter, it is hardly surprising that Laurel Chester considers that she had definitely inherited the "Chester nose for news" Andno sooner has she decided to edit the Fourth Form magazine, than things begin to happen which exer- cise all her ingenuity. To begin with, there is the empty man- s i o n next door. Why does nobody live there and why does it intrigue Laurel so much? And what are the activities of the strange old man in the long black cloak? As for the mistress, Miss James, her behaviour, to say the least of it, is distinctly odd. Other events complicate Laurel's detective work even further ….”

London. Hutchinson Co. 1950s. 235p.