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This eerie mystery thriller features a vanishing girl, a Spanish speaking parrot, and a time-telling turtle. Djuna and Ben weren't sure they believed in ghosts. The little girl who opened the door of the haunted house didn't look like a ghost yet she vanished into thin air. They had to find out what happened to her. And they had to rescue Waterbury, the time telling turtle who walked into the deserted house - and didn't walk out. Djuna found clues and he added them all up to solve a case the Secret Service couldn't crack! "The house is haunted," the fat stranger tells Djuna and Bill. But the two boys don't scare easily. How they find out for themselves - and what they learn - make front-page headlines. This eerie mystery thriller features a vanishing girl, a Spanish-speaking parrot, and a time-telling turtle - in a case that baffles even the Secret Service. |
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| Above from top left to bottom right: dust & 4 hardcover variations Lippincott (1942); dust & 2 hardcover variations Grosset & Dunlap (1942); dust and 3 hardcover variations Collins (1945-1946); dust and 2 hardcover variations Collins (1948). (Click on the covers to see the differences) * |
| Samuel (Duff) McCoy (1882-1964) had a contract with the Queens for the first eight juveniles from The Black Dog Mystery until The Blue Herring Mystery. But he didn't actually write the stories ... Whilst researching his new book on Ellery Queen, Jeffrey Marks found a first edition of The Red Chipmunk Mystery with the following inscription "Rhinebeck, N.Y. Aug. 31/48 For Karen Rose from the only real ghost who had anything to do with this book - Harold Montanye". He looked into this and found proof in correspondence between McCoy and Montanye that all final six books before 1954 beginning with The Green Turtle Mystery were written by Montanye. Harold had some difficulties getting his stake in the half share McCoy had. (More on the authorship can be read here...) |
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The Green Turtle Mystery
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 Other articles on this book (1) My Reader's Block Bev Hankins (March 19. 2017) |
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