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100 1 _aBarton, May Hollis
245 1 0 _aTwo girls and a mystery
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aThe Barton books for girls ; 8
500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-11
508 _aSusan E., David E. Brown, Chris Corrigan, Rod Crawford, Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Two girls and a mystery" by May Hollis Barton is a juvenile mystery novel written in the early 20th century. When cheerful Barbara “Bab” Winters inherits a dilapidated house from her eccentric Uncle Jeremiah, a cryptic codicil, a “lucky” ring, and tales of strange lights and footsteps draw her—and her daring friend Gerry—into a treasure-tinged quest. Joined by Gordon, Charlie, the quiet chaperon Mrs. Fenwick, and devoted cook Rosa Lee, Bab’s hunt blends spirited fun with eerie hints and a possibly related local kidnaping. The opening of the story finds Bab overhearing her grandparents’ money troubles and vowing to help, only to receive a lawyer’s letter: her great-uncle Jeremiah Dare has left her $500, an old house in a wooded glen, and a puzzling hint that its “treasure” will reveal itself to the courageous. A near-crash ride with Gordon and cousin Charlie coincides with a glimpse of a terrified girl in another car; soon newspapers report the abduction of a Barbara Winthrop who looks strikingly like Bab. Despite a lawyer’s warning about ghostly lights and pattering sounds, the group travels to the village of Clayton; on the way to the house they see a ragged boy beg for help before a dark, turbaned man seizes him and vanishes. At the gloomy, neglected house they begin exploring; thunder gathers, and in the library the girls hear unmistakable tiny, running footsteps and feel a cold, musty draft—an unsettling first brush with the mystery. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1928
653 _aKidnapping -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aYoung women -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aMystery and detective stories
653 _aPoverty -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aWills -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aHaunted houses -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aScarsdale (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aTownsend, Ernest N.
_q(Ernest Nathaniel),
_d1893-1945
830 0 _aThe Barton books for girls ; 8
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/TwoGirlsAndAMystery/barton-m-two-1928-BK000549-0001-LowRes/
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77221
999 _c117941
_d117941