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A spinster in a small country town spies on the summer boarders at a neighbour's farm and decides to intervene in what appears to be an illicit romance. [Probably set in the USA.] (PB)
A tale set in the west of England around 1820 involving the return of 17 year-old Julia Lovett, her friend and her suitor from London in time to help solve a mystery of secret passages, haunted rooms and fraudulent money coiners. (PB)
A ghost story in a deserted hut near Wood's Point, Victoria, the scene of a murder years before. The ghost is the murderer, and batteries are used to give an electric shock to those who came too close. (PB)
Reuben Stilton returns to his fiancee of two years and declares he no longer loves her. She ends this engagement, but eventually rediscovers him as a vagrant lunatic. [Probably set in the US.](PB)
Ruth Hinton must choose between rich 60 year-old James Hinton or his handsome young nephew - and the results of her choice are not exactly as she expected. (PB)