Books published by publisher Whitman Publishing Company, Racine, Wisconsin

In this third book of the series, Ginny Gordon and the Mystery at the Old Barn, Ginny and her friends, "The Hustlers," have sold The Swap Shop to Joe Dakor and have started a new project -- a snack shop in an old barn. Initially, the snack shop proves to be popular with the teenage crowd in the area. However, with the arrival of Lochinvar, a pre-rock-and-roll "hillbilly" singer at the Harristown Inn, the snack bar quickly loses its clientele to the excitement and novelty of this new form of music. As usual, Ginny and her friends triumph in the end, and solve a mystery along the way. The Ginny Gordon books were written by Julie Campbell Tatham, the author of the Trixie Belden series, under the pen name Julie Campbell. There are five books in all; they are: Ginny Gordon and the Disappearing Candlesticks (1948/1954), Ginny Gordon and the Missing Heirloom (1950/1954), Ginny Gordon and the Mystery at the Old Barn (1951/1954), Ginny Gordon and the Lending Library (1954), and Ginny Gordon and the Broadcast Mystery (1956). The first three books in the series were originally published in cloth-bound hardcovers with dust jackets illustrated by Margaret Jervis. By the time The Lending Library and The Broadcast Mystery were published in 1954 and 1956, respectively, Whitman had changed publishing formats for its juvenile line. The final two books in the series were issued with fully-illustrated, laminated paperboard covers. The first three titles were also resissued in this format in 1954 with new cover art by Margaret Wesley.