Dana Girls #28 Mystery of the Wax Queen

In Dana Girls #28, Mystery of the Wax Queen, Jean and Louise stay with Cousin Cynthia in New York City while they work on a mystery involving two wax queens.  A woman known as the "Wax Queen" makes wax busts.  She recently discovered a stolen bust of another wax queen, Queen Victoria, in her shop.  The Wax Queen hopes that the girls can help her prove that she is innocent of the theft.  Jean and Louise also work to bring to justice the people responsible for running a raffle ticket racket.

On page 14, the girls' "curiosity had been peaked."  The girls aren't "peaked," as in pale from fatigue.  Their curiosity has been "piqued," or stimulated.

Like The Secret of the Silver Dolphin, this book also has a psychic, the Wax Queen.  The predictions made by the Wax Queen are quite accurate, leaving no room for skepticism.  Harriet Adams clearly believed in psychic ability.

At the bottom of page 143, the Wax Queen begins to go into a history lesson about wax dolls.  At the top of page 144, "Louise interrupted gently to say that she would like to hear more about it later."  Awesome!  Harriet Adams had one of her own characters interrupt a history lesson.  She got in a tiny lesson, and then cut it short.  I love it.

This is a good book.