Heather Carter, a vivacious teen-ager, plans to spend her vacation at Thistle Trace Ranch visiting her cousin, Jinks MacDonnald. It is Heather's first trip to the ranch since the operation that restored part of her hearing, and she is looking forward to a lazy, fun-filled summer.
But when Heather arrives at the MacDonnalds', she finds her other cousin Jasper, a scientist, has disappeared and is suspected of taking important research papers from a secret government project.
Heather and Jinks believe Jasper will try to get in touch with them, and they watch for signs that might explain the puzzling events that occur.
A message finally is found, a silent one that Jasper had cleverly concealed. The girls follow clues in the message, finding danger and spine-tingling excitement—and eventually Jasper himself. But it is not until the determined girls exhaust every effort in clearing Jasper from a possible charge of subversion that the mystery is fully explained.
The above summary is from the publisher.
The author made me care, almost immediately. That's more important than anything. The story is intriguing, for several reasons which I won't mention.
The front cover of the book has Morse code on it! I found a table of Morse code symbols and deciphered it. The code says what I expected it would probably say. So neat!
The culprit is predictable. I guessed fairly early in the story, but that is often the case. Since I had already guessed, I was a bit nervous when Heather and Jinks choose to trust this person. I knew that was a mistake.
This is a very good book.
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