Clue in Witchwhistle Well
Marilyn Ezzell
Paperback
(Beaver Bks., March 15, 1984)
Susan Sand, 19-year-old mystery writer of detective, loses away after a long day out with her friends Marge Halloran and Christine Sommers and the girls are very relieved to stumble across some sort of summer cabins deep in the woods where they can stay the night. But their relief turns to surprise and unease when Susan is woken by a mysterious sound in the night and sees Marge's little wishing well which she brought as a souvenir vanishing through the window on the end of fishing rod. Susan's puzzlement deepens when she realises that in fact the thief has merely exchanged Marge's well for another identical to it - but for the fact that it lacks the serial number 2 2R on the bottom.Susan and her friends are plunged into one of the most baffling mysteries of Susan's career, and all Susan's courage and skills are tested to the full before the extraordinary story Gilaway Island and its royal rulers is finally made clear.