THE BLUE HERRING MYSTERY

by ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 20, 1954

Young Djuna of The Yellow Cat Mystery and others, is on the hunt again, this time in his own Atlantic seaboard home town of Edenboro, to solve the mystery of the belongings old Capt. Jonas Beekman left behind him. When the Beekman house is turned into a museum by a Mr. Kloop, there is also the suspicious druggist, Perry, to contend with, and it soon becomes a question of who will find Capt. Beekman's cache of pearls first. He had muttered something like ""blue herring"" when he died, but it is Djuna who discovers that the pearls are hidden under a model of a blue heron, that Perry is the culprit and that Kloop is a detective in disguise. Lively hide and seek.

Pub Date: Sept. 20, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Little, Brown

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1954

Categories: FICTION