The Case Of The Phantom Friend

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Concerned when their elderly friend Mrs. Greaves is threatened, Nicki and four other girls work to solve the mystery before she loses everything she loves.

In Victorian England, a girl finds a mystery in a country manor: “Readers will enjoy sorting through the legitimate clues and red herrings.”—Booklist Twelve-year-old Maisie lives in her grandmother’s big boarding house, but now she and her dog Eddie are invited to join Maisie’s friend Alice and her high-society family on a trip to the country. It’s lovely to get away from the London smog, but there is something strange about the manor where the girls are staying. Odd noises, horrid smells, and sightings of a spectral cat keep them up at night… Has Alice's father rented a haunted house? There must be a logical explanation, and Maisie plans to use her detecting skills to find out what it is! This is another delightful mystery, with line drawings included, from the author of The Case of the Stolen Sixpence, which Publishers Weekly described as “[a] young Nancy Drew adventure by way of Downton Abbey.”

When businessman Horace Warren hires attorney Perry Mason to investigate threats against his wife, Mason finds himself pulled into a complex web of blackmail, stolen cash, and murder. As Mason works to uncover the truth, he clashes with both cunning criminal Collister Gideon and headstrong District Attorney Hamilton Burger. To crack the case and reveal Gideon's accomplice, Mason must act quickly while treading carefully around witnesses to ensure their testimony holds up in court. With the future of both his clients and his law practice on the line, Mason employs bold tactics and razor-sharp wit to try to force the real killer out of hiding.

Judy wishes her FBI husband, Peter Dobbs, would complete his mysterious mission and join her in New York City. She wants him to help her find her new friend Clarissa, who might be in real danger.

Plato's arguments are developed through complex exchanges between literary characters. Consequently, it is questionable that theses can be attributed to the author himself. Wolfsdorf has it that the answer to this dilema lies in transcending the divide and integrating the literary and philosophical dimensions of the texts.