In there she mysteriously finds her own name written on the wall with a date: 1914. Some how Jessamy is transported back to that time and to the people who lived in the house and is involved in the theft of a valuable treasure - a treasure she must find...

    They promptly took her on an exploring expedition to the park, where, while the girls climbed a tree, Melinda disappeared.Where had Melinda gone? Had she been stolen by a deliberate thief or merely picked up by some passing child who wanted a toy? Was the gray-haired lady with the shopping bag involved? Or perhaps the curious old man with the crinkly eyes? How could the twins possibly find her again in a town they didn't know among people they had never met?With "cold fingers of dread clutching at their hearts" Cordelia and Ophelia begin their sleuthing into sometimes preposterous and sometimes dangerous corners. Here is a literate and hilarious mystery-adventure told by a skilled author.

    The cross-country hike that begins as a game turns out to be a life-and-death struggle for three teen-agers as they try to save a precious Roman artifact from being stolen from an archaeological dig near Hadrian's Wall.