Jack P. McGurk and his friends journey back in time to 1692, at the time of the New England witch trials, to save Hester Bidgood, a thirteen-year-old Puritan girl accused of witchcraft, from execution.
An imaginatively funny account of the McGurk detectives as they devise an ingenious plan to catch a bashful bank robber who is threatening the banks of their community
Hardcover
(Dutton Books for Young Readers, July 22, 1985)
Decorous flirtations and suppressed emotions characterize the several near romances of Wilmet Forsyth--a young woman bored by her civil-servant husband--and the various occasions of romantic error that touch upon her life