During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.
year: 2005, 2006
call number/section: 1000, 4
subjects: cousins, juvenile fiction, suicide, fathers and daughters, ghosts, psychic ability, san francisco (calif.), juvenile fiction, fiction
Editions
Allison, Jennifer
Sleuth/Dutton (2005)
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.
Schools: 29
Allison, Jennifer
Sleuth/Puffin (2006)
Seeing an opportunity to use her psychic abilities, Gilda Joyce invites herself to San Francisco, where she visits her uncle and cousin, Juliet, communicates with the ghost in their old Victorian house, and learns family secrets.
Schools: 5