Description
Marcia Brett has observed an odd commotion at the broken down and what seems to be a deserted large house beside theirs. There is a strange, veiled lady who comes and goes out of the main door, another lady is seen behind a closed window, and the strangest of all a beautiful, golden haired girl is seen so pitiful at an upper window. Marcia and her best friend, Janet McNeil, decided to unlock the secrets of the old mansion and be friends with the blond girl, but the secrets remained to be concealed. The young girl does not know why she is at the mansion and she does not even know who the two women are. The chapters include Marcia’s Secret, The Face Behind the Shutter, The Gate Opens, The Backward Glance, The Handkerchief in the Window, Cecily Reveals Herself, Surprises All Around, At the End of the String, For the Sake of Cecily, The Filigree Bracelet, The Lifted Veil, Miss Benedict Speaks, Via Wireless, The Writing on the Bracelets, Puzzling It Out, One Mystery Explained, Major Goodrich Assists, The Major has a Further Inspiration, The Unexpected, Aunt Minerva Takes Command, and Six Months Later. Augusta Huiell Seaman was an American writer of children’s fictions. She is the author of more than 40 classical fiction and mystery books for elder children, which are mostly not anymore in print. She was born Augusta Curtiss Huiell in New York City, the daughter of the bookkeeper John Valentine Huiell and his third wife, Anna Curtiss. She completed her studies from Normal College, now Hunter College, in New York City and was a teacher in elementary school. After her marriage with Robert Seaman, she got the time to write children’s fictions. She has only one child, Helen Roberta or Bobbie. She remarried after her husband died and lived in the Island Beach, New Jersey. She wrote several books while working in the local government in different positions.
Product ID: 9781776721795
Sku: ZF-NMRS-VPUE
