Kay learns that Miss Janey is heir to a valuable chemical formula. The papers have been stolen, and someone else has announced the discovery. Kay must prove that Miss Janey's formula was stolen before she loses her inheritance.
Miss Janey reminds me of Mrs. Putney from the Nancy Drew book, The Ghost of Blackwood Hall.
The various mishaps include the following. Ethel gets in a car crash. Betty and Wilma are buried in an avalanche. Kay is saved from a fire in Miss Janey's chemistry lab. A carriage and horses plunge over a cliff, and the horses are put down since their legs are broken.
Kay discovers the solution to Miss Janey's formula. Of course she does. Kay is brilliant.
The first page of the Garden City and Books, Inc. editions was partially rewritten. Otherwise, the text of the Cupples and Leon edition appears to be identical to the later editions.
I overall enjoyed this story, but I found it somewhat lacking.
2 comments:
The last crime that Jack Beardsley commits as Adele Cortiz is to steal Ethel's aunt's jewelry from Ethel by switching the valuable pieces with fakes that are so obvious that Wilma and Betty spot them as frauds immediately. But Jack gave Ethel the alias he was using and the location where he ("she") was staying, the Belden Apartments. Even Ethel would know where to send the police and who to send them after, if she didn't give the information to Kay, which she does. It is almost as if Jack is trying to get caught.
The last crime that Jack Beardsley commits as Adele Cortiz is to steal Ethel's aunt's jewelry from Ethel by switching the valuable pieces with fakes that are so obvious that Wilma and Betty spot them as frauds immediately. But Jack gave Ethel the alias he was using and the location where he ("she") was saying, the Belden Apartments. Even Ethel would have known where to send the police and who to send them after, if she didn't give the information to Kay, which she did. It is almost as if Jack is trying to get caught.
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