Books with title The Abandoned City

The night of his grandfather's mysterious death at the Cedars, Bobby Blackburn was, at least until midnight, in New York. He was held there by the unhealthy habits and companion-ships which recently had angered his grandfather 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. Before following Bobby through his black experience, how-ever, it is better to know what happened at the Cedars where his cousin, Katherine Perrine was, except for the servants, alone with old Silas Blackburn who seemed apprehensive of some sly approach of disaster.

A murder occurs in a 'secret room' but is the murdered really dead? Whats all the mystery surrounding the Cedars? How could someone be killed if they slept in a locked room? What is Silas Blackburn's secret? Is Bobby the culprit and does Katherine have something to hide? And to top it all off who's the strange quite ghost-like figure in black...With a wonderful art of deduction like Sherlock Holmes, Carlos Paredes eventually solves this unusual case...

When Zoe helps out at Aunt Jo's animal shelter, she's caught up in an emergency right away. Three tiny puppies have been abandoned on the doorstep and need nursing back to health, especially the littlest puppy, Cookie. Zoe knows she can't have a puppy of her own, but as the days go by, she becomes more and more attached to the puppies, and she loves Cookie best of all. How will she cope when it's time for Cookie to be adopted?