The Black Opal
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- Synopsis
- Laurel Stanwood hardly sets foot on Colbert's campus before her journalistic nose for news puts her on the trail of an historic murder mystery that has baffled professional sleuths since 1848. Her interest was aroused when Rue 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 Laurel 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 an outing when she discovers a saddlebag 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 Laurel pieces together the jigsaw puzzle of an extraordinary crime.
- Copyright:
- 1949
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 190 Pages
- Publisher:
- The Macmillan Company
- Date of Addition:
- 03/04/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Dorothy Maywood Bird
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Teens, Literature and Fiction
- Reading Age:
- 14 and up
- Submitted By:
- Melba June Thompson
- Proofread By:
- Lynn Thompson
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.