MYSTERY IN THE MUSEUM

by Betty Cavanna ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 23, 1972

There are still plenty of girls like Ellen, to whom the prospect of a summer spent working in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts ""beckoned as no bucolic countryside could,"" but her self-righteous starchiness (she's always reprimanding friends for failing to appreciate their parents) seems out of place among her young artist friends where ""unconventionality was the rule."" As for the theft of a priceless Greek gold bracelet and its replacement by a clever fake, it's as plain as the Roman nose on his uncle SaPs face that poor Italian student Julio Vozella is innocent and Ellen's boyfriend Keith (rich, well-favored, but with a ""serious flaw running through his personality"") is the real forger. The doings at the Museum bear little resemblance either to real life or to good suspense fiction; what they do bring to mind is the invariable pattern of Betty Cavanna's previous mysteries -- a few hours of well-chaperoned adventure for the unsophisticated and undemanding.

Pub Date: Aug. 23, 1972

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Morrow

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1972

Categories: FICTION