The Secret Mark (A Mystery Story for Girls Series) by Snell, Roy J. (Roy Justin) - 1923

MP3 Audio CD. The Secret Mark is an excellent story from the pen of Roy J. Snell, one of the most successful and most prolific authors of mysteries for young and girls in the history of 20th century American literature.The protagonist of the story, the amateur detective and young genius who follows leads and assembles information to complete a story with gaps like only the best adult detectives can is Lucile Tucker, a student of Chicago University and part-time university librarian. This time she investigates a theft ? one evening she follows a girl in the library and sees the girl stealing a valuable book form one of the special collections in the library. The child then mysteriously disappears, but Lucile is already intrigued and decides to find out who the child is and why she stole the book.While on the case, she is helped by her friend and roommate, a girl called Florence and together they follow clues and leads that take them to a crumbling old building in the outskirts of Chicago. They also… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Secret Mark CHAPTER I A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR Lucile Tucker's slim, tapered fingers trembled slightly as she rested them against a steel-framed bookcase. She had paused to steady her shaken nerves, to collect her wits, to determine what her next move should be. "Who can it be?" her madly thumping heart kept asking her. And, indeed, who, besides herself, could be in the book stacks at this hour of the night? About her, ranging tier on tier, towering from floor to ceiling, were books, thousands on thousands of books. The two floors above were full of books. The two below were the same. This place was a perfect maze of books. It was one of the sections of a great library, the library of one of the finest universities of the United States. In all this vast "city of books" she had thought herself quite alone. It was a ghostly hour. Midnight. In the towers the great clock had slowly struck. Besides the striking of the clock there had been but a single sound: the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Secret Mark is an excellent story from the pen of Roy J. Snell, one of the most successful and most prolific authors of mysteries for young and girls in the history of 20th century American literature.The protagonist of the story, the amateur detective and young genius who follows leads and assembles information to complete a story with gaps like only the best adult detectives can is Lucile Tucker, a student of Chicago University and part-time university librarian. This time she investigates a theft ? one evening she follows a girl in the library and sees the girl stealing a valuable book form one of the special collections in the library. The child then mysteriously disappears, but Lucile is already intrigued and decides to find out who the child is and why she stole the book.While on the case, she is helped by her friend and roommate, a girl called Florence and together they follow clues and leads that take them to a crumbling old building in the outskirts of Chicago. They also… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Secret Mark CHAPTER I A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR Lucile Tucker's slim, tapered fingers trembled slightly as she rested them against a steel-framed bookcase. She had paused to steady her shaken nerves, to collect her wits, to determine what her next move should be. "Who can it be?" her madly thumping heart kept asking her. And, indeed, who, besides herself, could be in the book stacks at this hour of the night? About her, ranging tier on tier, towering from floor to ceiling, were books, thousands on thousands of books. The two floors above were full of books. The two below were the same. This place was a perfect maze of books. It was one of the sections of a great library, the library of one of the finest universities of the United States. In all this vast "city of books" she had thought herself quite alone. It was a ghostly hour. Midnight. In the towers the great clock had slowly struck. Besides the striking of the clock there had been but a single sound: the… Read More

Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. First printing. Black cloth stamped with orange titles. Near fine with a cocked spine, bumped spine ends and corners, and light marks.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.