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Our heroine in these two volumes which total 18 chapters, Mary Eliska Girl
Detective Girl Aviatrix, is a well-off young lady whose grandfather Albert
Stricklin is a newspaper publisher in Piedmont, California, who supports her
as a reporter for his paper The Piedmont Star, aware that she likes to dabble
in detective work. Flying in her airplane and driving her jalopy "Calamity Jane",
Mary Eliska joins with her three best friends: nieces Jacqueline...
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This is a classic detective mystery. Briefly, the plot concerns the death of a reclusive, elderly lady, who is the aunt to the female love interest and her brother, and sister to their mother. The investigating girl detective is among the school friends of the male love interest engaged to the female. The problem in this book would seem to be, 'who dun it'. Readers may be pulled in at the start by the appealing young woman Jax Gray who shows up needing...
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Mademoiselle Mary Eliska and the Phantom of the Opera © 2022 TXu 2-298-864 Case No. 1-11064158121 by William A. Stricklin USA. Mademoiselle Mary Eliska The book tells the story of a masked figure who lurks beneath the catacombs of the Paris Opera House, exercising a reign of terror over all who inhabit it. On September 23, 1909, the first installment of Gaston Leroux's novel Le Fantme de l'Opéra was published in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois. Installments...
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The night of his Uncle Bobby's mysterious death at Carnahan Station, near Astoria, Oregon, Culley May was, at least until midnight, in Portland, Oregon. He was held there by the unhealthy habits and companionships which recently had angered his Uncle Bobby to the point of threatening a disciplinary change in his will. As a consequence he drifted into that strange adventure which later was to surround him with dark shadows and overwhelming doubts....
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Mary Eliska Girl Detective and The Mystery of the Gray Mask originally The Gray Mask a 1920 mystery by Charles Wadsworth Camp (1879-1936) currently in the public domain. Camp was a writer, a critic, and a foreign correspondent who suffered lung damage from exposure to mustard gas during World War I. The Camp detective mystery has been re-written by William A. Stricklin as part of a series of girl detective murder mysteries solved by his daughter as...
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Mary Eliska Girl Detective - Book 75 - The Temple of Death-The Bride of the Sun King-as re-written by William A. Stricklin © 2021
The Bride of the Sun written by the author of "Phantom of the Opera," whose original tale takes us to Peru where Dick Montgomery hopes to marry his fiancé, Maria-Teresa de la Torre, the daughter of a Spanish marquis. Because of their disrespectful manner, Maria-Teresa discharges a group of Quichua Indians working in...
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Mary Eliska Girl Detective - The Mystery of the Spider is a thoroughly entertaining girl detective tale of murder, blackmail, romance and mystery. The original author of 'The Spider' was Fergus Hume, the father of the mystery novel who wrote 'Mystery of the Hansom Cab' completely without a clue that it would one day be described as "The most successful mystery novel of all time."
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It is another exciting Mary Eliska Girl Detective whodunnit, with less romance than usual. The plot is that a couple had a room in which all walls and items are white. One day when they were away, a police officer walks in front of their house, he listens to a beautiful song. After some events, the officer enters the house and a lady wearing black is found dead in the white room. There are a lot of characters, about 15 suspects, and the plot twists...
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Mademoiselle Rouletabille Mary Eliska Girl Detective The Secret of the Night © 2021 TXu 2-295-430 by William A. Stricklin. The Secret of the Night originally Rouletabille chez le Tsar a 1913 mystery in the French language by Gaston Leroux currently in the public domain, has been re-written by in English as part of a series of girl detective mysteries solved by Mary Eliska Girl Detective. Rouletabille (roule ta bille, or "Roll your marble") is French...
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room (French Le mystère de la chambre jaune) by Gaston Leroux. One of the first locked-room mystery novels, it appeared serially in France first in the periodical L'Illustration from September 1907 to November 1907 and as a book in 1908 The Mystery of the Yellow Room. Rouletabille solves an attempted murder in a locked room mystery. As re-written by William A. Stricklin in this version Rouletabille is the nickname of 18-year-old...
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The Guarded Heights, written in 1921 by Wadsworth Camp, now in the public domain, has been rewritten as Mary Eliska and The Guarded Heights, by William A. Stricklin, and is the saga of Ed Hall as he struggles to make it big and thereby rise from his humble background. Ed never could be certain when he first conceived the preposterous idea that Mary Eliska ought to belong to him. The full realization, at any rate, came all at once, unexpectedly, destroying...