An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own doubts on the innocence of the entire Leonides brood. He knows them intimately. And he's certain that in a crooked house such as Three Gables, no one's on the level...

    

    The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerism's, appearance, and every significant detail of Patrick's early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that jeopardize the imposter's plan and his life.

    Her interest was aroused when Toe Sargeant told her about the bitter rivalry that existed between the girls' newspaper, the Feminist, and the boys' paper, the Iconoclast.Solving the murder mystery would be a scoop no one could top, not even the Iconoclast's egghead editor, J. Swinton Towne.Though Laura soon becomes engrossed in her new friends, studies, football games, and dances, the mystery persistently crops up -- in her English term paper on the history of opals; during a picnic when she discovers a saddle bag with the same name engraved on it as the name found on the murderer's gun; and in an incredible "lost" letter mailed by the victim the very night of the murder!Girls of today will enjoy this fast-moving story about life at a typical modern college -- typical, that is, until Laura pieces together the jigsaw puzzle of an extraordinary crime.

    Also called "Mystery of the Mooncusser"A ghost they said, but was it? She had only half beleived the rumors, now she knew, The Mooncusser!

    When someone returns the favor in spades, it is up to homicide detective Sam Birge to find out who.

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    Celia is interested in discovering why Norman, its boy resident, is unfriendly; Laurie wants to know all about the phantom stagecoach, which is said to draw up to that house on rainy nights.* NOTE ABOUT DERIVING FACTS: Fantastic Fiction is a wonderful website but is not foolproof and has made many errors with Ms. Whitney's classic oeuvres. My own copy declares 1949 as the year of publication. *