Books with title The Mystery of the Missing Masterpiece

When the Aldens hear that Mr. Wood’s cat, Spotzie, is missing, they immediately help out by putting up LOST CAT posters and going door-to-door with a photograph of the cat. But along the way they meet some strange characters, receive frightening phone calls, and even find a cat that looks just like Spotzie — but is it? It seems that the more they search, the more mysterious the mystery becomes!

Anika, a thirteen-year-old girl, was not pleased about her family moving to Maine. Making new friends, attending a new school, and leaving the only home she knew in New York, were all making her nervous. On a stormy afternoon, her dad disappeared while riding on his new boat. Little did Anika know that with the help of her new friend Mia, both girls would come up with a rescue plan and adventure on the ocean to try to solve this mystery. Would Anika and Mia crack the case?

This book is an illustrated version of the original Masterpieces of Mystery by Joseph Lewis French. A distinguished American writer of fiction said to me lately: "Did you ever think of the vital American way we live? We are always going after mental gymnastics." Now the mystery story is mental gymnastics. By the time the reader has followed a chain of facts through he has exercised his mind,—given himself a mental breather. But the claims of the true mystery story do not end with the general reader. It is entitled to the consideration of the discriminating because it indubitably takes its own place as a gauge of mastery in the field of the short story.