Campfire Girls Series Books: List of Titles and Authors

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The purpose of this guide is to list the many different vintage series books that feature a group of Campfire Girls as the main characters.  This list is likely not complete, but it should cover a majority of the different series that are available. 

Banner Campfire Girls by Julianne Devries

1. Campfire Girls as Detectives, 1933
2. Campfire Girls at Holly House, 1933
3. Campfire Girls Flying Around the Globe, 1933
4. Campfire Girls on Caliban Island, 1933
5. Campfire Girls as Federal Investigators, 1935
6. Campfire Girls at the White House, 1935

Campfire Girls by Irene Elliott Benson

1. Campfire Girls Mountaineering, 1918
    (also published as Campfire Girls in the Alleghany Mountains, 1918)
2. Campfire Girls' Rural Retreat, 1918
    (also published as Campfire Girls in the Country, 1918)
3. Campfire Girls Trip up the River, 1918
    (also published as How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl, 1912)
4. Campfire Girls Outing, 1918
    (also published as Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl, 1913)
5. Campfire Girls on a Hike, 1918
6. Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes, 1918
7. Campfire Girls in the Forest, 1918
8. Campfire Girls' Lake Camp, 1918

Camp Fire Girls Stories by Amy E. Blanchard

1. The Camp Fire Girls of Brightwood, 1915
2. Fagots and Flames, 1916
3. In Camp with the Muskoday Camp Fire Girls, 1917

Camp Fire Girls Series by Hildegarde Frey

  1. The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods, 1916
  2. The Camp Fire Girls at School, 1916
  3. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House, 1916
  4. The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring, 1916
  5. The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks, 1918
  6. The Camp Fire Girls on Ellen's Isle, 1918
  7. The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road, 1918
  8. The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit, 1919
  9. The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery, 1919
10. The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin, 1920

Campfire Girls by Isabel Hornibrook

1. Girls of the Morning Glory Camp Fire, 1916
2. Campfire Girls and Mt. Greylock, 1917
3. Campfire Girls in War and Peace, 1919

Campfire Girls Series by Margaret Penrose

These books are retitled reprints of the Radio Girls Series.

1. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn, 1930
2. The Campfire Girls on the Program, 1930
3. The Campfire Girls on Station Island, 1930
4. The Campfire Girls at Forest Lodge, 1930

Campfire Girls by Harriet Rietz (#1-2) and Samuel Edward Lowe (#3-7)

1. The Campfire Girls and Aunt Madge, 1919
2. The Campfire Girls' Week End Party
3. The Campfire Girls' Success
4. The Campfire Girls in High School
5. The Campfire Girls' Duty Call
6. The Campfire Girls at Work, 1920
7. The Campfire Girls' Red Cross Work

Camp Fire Girls by Margaret Love

1. The Camp Fire Girls at Hillside, 1913
2. The Camp Fire Girls at Pine-Tree Camp, 1914
3. The Camp Fire Girls at Top O' World, 1916
4. The Camp Fire at Lookout Pass, 1917
5. The Camp Fire Girls at Driftwood, 1918
6. The Camp Fire Girls in Old Kentucky, 1919
7. The Camp Fire Girls on a Yacht, 1920
8. The Camp Fire Girls on Hurricane Island, 1921

Camp Fire Girls Series by Jane L. Stewart

1. The Camp Fire Girls in the Woods, 1914
    (also published as A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire)
2. The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm, 1914
    (also published as A Campfire Girl's Chum)
3. The Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake, 1914
    (also published as A Campfire Girl in Summer Camp)
4. The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains, 1914
    (also published as A Campfire Girl's Adventure)
5. The Camp Fire Girls on the March, 1914
    (also published as A Campfire Girl's Test of Friendship)
6. The Camp Fire Girls at the Seashore, 1914
    (also published as A Campfire Girl's Happiness) 

Nancy Drew #170 No Strings Attached, #171 Grand Opera, and #172 Riding Club Crime

In Nancy Drew #170, No Strings Attached, Nancy, Bess, and George visit Paris, France.  The girls stay with Mimi Loiseau, who runs a puppet theater and museum out of her home.  Soon after the girls arrive, a fire is set in Mimi's home, and later, a puppet is stolen.

Inexplicably, Nancy and her friends are 17 in this book.  George has chestnut hair, when her hair is usually described as brown.  Not only are the descriptions off, but the writing is very sloppy in this book.

On page 21, the fire examiner calls Mimi to tell her the fire was arson and not to touch anything before they come back to investigate.  Why didn't they investigate before?

On page 64, Mimi and the girls use a folk legend in order to find the missing puppet, Esmeralda.  And it works!  This is just bizarre.

On page 85, Nancy makes shrewd observation.  "I have a hunch that most professional burglars don't steal puppets."  She does have a point.

Page 97 has an incorrect shift in tense in the second paragraph.  Someone didn't proofread this book very well.

The writing throughout the book is odd and unclear.  At times, I was not certain what the author meant.  Like on page 90, Nancy says, "Please, someone be here," as she rummages through her backpack while she is locked inside a book bin.  Huh?  Finally, Nancy finds her phone and tries to make a call.  She must have been hoping someone would be on the other end of the line.  I thought that they were in her bag.

I overall enjoyed this book, and I'm not sure how or why, since the book is not well-written and not that good.

In Nancy Drew #171, Intrigue at the Grand Opera, Nancy, Bess, and George work as extras for the American Grand Opera during its performances in River Heights.  Two famous actresses despise each other, and tensions run high.  Dangerous accidents occur on the set, and Nancy must find out who is sabotaging the opera.

I would not be surprised if this book was written by the same person who wrote the previous book.  The writing is strange and unclear in this book as well.

Nancy's age is not mentioned in this book.  I think she might be 18 since the book mentions a boy who was in her class who is taking a year off before playing football in college.  That makes it sound like they are 18. 

On page 12, a male stage manager is considered sexist in Nancy's opinion, after he accuses a female stage hand of being careless after an accident. I see nothing sexist, except that a woman is being accused.  She is standing right where the sandbag fell, so I can see why she would be accused.  I don't see the problem, yet we get a bunch of Nancy's thoughts about all of the sexist men she has encountered in past cases.  Alrighty then.

On page 64, Nancy throws her pizza crust back in the pizza box even though three-fourths of the pizza is left.  She plans to offer the pizza to Bess.  With her pizza crust in the box.

I could mention many other things that are strange in this book, but I'm going to stop there.  Suffice it to say that this book reads like a rough draft.

The book begins to get really interesting around page 105.  Up to that point, the book is mediocre.

In Nancy Drew #172, The Riding Club Crime, Nancy, Bess, and George go undercover as counselors at the Green Spring Pony Club so that they can discover who is sabotaging the pony club.

The girls are definitely back to age 18 in this book, because on page 9, they regret that they cannot enroll in the pony camp.  The pony camp has an age limit of 17. On page 15, the book gives Nancy's age as 18.

The beginning of the book has far too lengthy of an explanation of the various horse competitions in which the pony club is to compete.  Boring!

This book also lacks in editing.  Page 30 has "bighouse" as one word.  Oops.

This book is nothing special.  Really, it just rehashes several old plots from previous books.

Food, Fun, and Camping

What better way to spend a holiday than to enjoy a cookout? Here is an excerpt from pages 78-80 of The Secret of Camp Pioneer, from the Girl Scouts Mystery Series by Virginia Fairfax:

When all of the girls had arrived at this spot, Captain Mac gave the signal for silence. 

"We're going to have a meal that you can prepare very quickly," she began. "The chief dish is galloping guinea pigs. That's right, girls, laugh! That's a funny name for a dish, but it tastes as good as it sounds. The Cardinals are to be the wood-gatherers, the Whippoorwills the fire-builders; the Owls are to make the galloping guinea pigs, while the Bluebirds are to get long, green, sweet-gum sticks for the guinea pigs to ride on. Let's see how quickly and well we can prepare our first meal." 

With much chattering and laughter, the girls set to work at their different tasks. As there were several piles of dry branches at the foot of the hill, the girls soon had their wood gathered and the fire built. While they were waiting for the fire to make a bed of hot coals suitable for cooking, several of them roamed about, exploring the knoll. 

In the meantime, the Owls were being initiated into the mysteries of the galloping guinea pigs. Bubbling over with curiosity, they circled around the food, peering at the boxes of bacon, the yellow triangles of cheese, and the lettuce and rolls, which Lu had brought out. All-interest, they watched Captain Mac deftly demonstrate the method of making this dish. Having cut a piece of cheese into cubes, she took a cube, wrapped a piece of bacon around it and fastened it securely with a small sliver of green wood. "This wood is sweet gum," she explained, "because it will not spoil the flavor of the food as pine and some other kinds of wood will. As soon as the Bluebirds bring the long sticks, I'll push the sharpened end of a stick into this cheese and bacon—or pig—and then it will be ready to cook. When the bacon is done, open up a roll, slip in a piece of lettuce and the pig—and you know what to do next." 

"I'll say we do!" exclaimed Hilda. "Let's hurry and do it."

Billie Bradley Winning the Trophy

In Billie Bradley Winning the Trophy, Billie and her friends worry about whether they will be able to win the school trophy. The trouble is that Billie is barred from participating in athletic events since she has been blamed for one of Amanda Peabody's pranks. Billie refuses to rat out Amanda. Surely Billie and her friends have no hope of winning the trophy, but wait... the book is titled Billie Bradley Winning the Trophy. Oh, so Billie does win the trophy. How suspenseful!

A title like Billie Bradley Winning the Trophy gives away the ending of the book. Why couldn't they be more creative? How about Billie Bradley at Camp Red Wing? That is where the girls go, and the title does not spoil the ending. Oh, well.

It little matters since the book is interesting aside from the matter about the trophy, which is the one part that does not interest me, probably because the title spoils the ending. The school is freezing cold since the temporary janitor is lazy and uninterested in keeping the furnace lit. Billie confronts the man about the furnace, and he defiantly announces that he will get a huge fire going for Billie. The furnace explodes the next day, and school is canceled. The entire student body is relocated to Camp Red Wing where the girls resume their studies while waiting for the furnace to be fixed.

Edina Tooker, the girl from Oklahoma, is one of Billie's friends in this book, and she has been completely assimilated into the Three Towers Hall culture, so much so that she has completely lost her strong Oklahoma accent. How odd...

I read this final volume in the Billie Bradley series in approximately one day, which shows how much I enjoyed it. If only volume 7 had not bored me, I would have had this series finished late last year.

Many months passed in between reading volumes 1-7 and volumes 8-9, so I may not be remembering well, but I feel that the final two volumes have a different tone, at least with respect to the girls' relationships with the boys. In the early volumes, Billie and Teddy have a disgustingly sappy pseudo father-daughter relationship, rather than a normal boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.

In these last two books, Billie and Teddy do not interact that much, and more is mentioned of Paul Martinson's interest in Billie than in Teddy's interest in Billie. This is fine with me, since I never liked Teddy in the first place. He can go jump into Lake Molata as far as I am concerned.

For the most part, I enjoyed the Billie Bradley series. I perused my blog posts on this series to remind myself of my thoughts as I read the books. At several points, I was bored, and this usually happened during books that are not set at Three Towers Hall. In my opinion, the Billie Bradley books that are set at the school are written the best and are the most interesting.

I had forgotten that I began reading the Billie Bradley series in the spring of 2009. It took me an entire year to make it through all nine books. As a result, I have to rate the series as overall so-so but with some outstanding parts. The Billie Bradley series is worth reading, but it is not anywhere near the level of Betty Gordon and of my other favorite pre-Nancy Drew Stratemeyer series.

Nancy Drew Diaries #3 Midnight Rider and #4 Once Upon a Thriller

In Nancy Drew Diaries #3, Mystery of the Midnight Rider, Nancy and Ned cheer on Ned's friend, Payton Evans, as she competes in the River Heights Horse Show.  Soon into the show, Payton's horse, Midnight, tests positive for drugs.  Ned is certain that Payton would never cheat, so Nancy investigates who is responsible for sabotaging Payton in the competition.

On page 7, Bess is described as "girly," so it sounds like she has retained her characterization from the Girl Detective series.

This book feels exactly like a Nancy Drew Digest book, just written in first-person narrative.  It is like a typical sabotage book, but the book takes a bit of a twist.  And I do mean quite a twist. 

I got a little bored around page 110.  By page 149, I was really bored.  On page 164, Nancy thinks, "The huge, colorful jumps had actually taken my mind off the case for a few minutes."  I needed something to take my mind off of the book.  I was so very bored!

By page 170, I was interested in the book again because I had guessed the culprit and was interested in how the rest of the story would play out.

Overall, the book is not bad, but the middle part could have been more interesting.  For around 60 to 70 pages, absolutely nothing happens except for Nancy wondering who the culprit is as she wanders around asking people questions. 

In Nancy Drew Diaries #4, Once Upon a Thriller, Nancy, Bess, and George travel to Moon Lake for what they expect to be a relaxing weekend.  Instead, the girls find mystery when a local book store is set on fire.  Nancy learns that a mystery author, Lacey O'Brien, lives at Moon Lake.  Strangely, the book store fire is similar to an event in one of Lacey's books, and other crimes that soon occur are also like events from Lacey's books.

The idea of someone setting up a crime spree to copy events from a book reminds me of the plot from Nancy Drew Digest #79, The Double Horror of Fenley Place, in which each scene filmed for the movie also occurs at the house across the street.  The plots of the two books are not at all the same, but I couldn't help thinking of Fenley Place as I read this book.

This book is set at Moon Lake and in a nearby town, Avondale.  In the very first Nancy Drew book, The Secret of the Old Clock, Nancy stays at Camp Avondale on Moon Lake.

On page 31, Nancy and Bess paddle while George rests.  This is very strange.  George has always been the athletic one.

On page 43, the word "portaged" is used.  The previous book has the word "fractious."  I feel like these are words that many children would have to look up. 

We learn on page 53 that Ned and his father are still involved with the newspaper, the River Heights Bugle.

Nancy goes looking for a typewriter, just like in the old mysteries, because a threatening note was typed on an old typewriter with a damaged key. 

This is a very good book.  I enjoyed it from start to finish.  The book grabbed me immediately, and I love the setting.

Mildred Wirt Benson: Stories and Novels for Children

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Mildred Wirt Benson is best remembered as the author of the early Nancy Drew books.  However, the Nancy Drew books are but one small part of her writing.  Benson wrote well over 100 books, most of which are just as good as the Nancy Drew books that she wrote.  While many of the books were written under Benson's real name, others were written under various pseudonyms.  The purpose of this guide is to list the many books written by Mildred Wirt Benson.

For more information about these different books, please visit my Mildred Wirt Benson page.

Boy Scout Explorers Series (as Don Palmer)

  1. Boy Scout Explorers at Emerald Valley, 1955
  2. Boy Scout Explorers at Treasure Mountain, 1955
  3. Boy Scout Explorers at Headless Hollow, 1957

The Brownie Scouts Series (as Mildred A. Wirt)

  1. The Brownie Scouts at Snow Valley, 1949
  2. The Brownie Scouts in the Circus, 1949
  3. The Brownie Scouts in the Cherry Festival, 1950
  4. The Brownie Scouts and Their Tree House, 1951
  5. The Brownie Scouts at Silver Beach, 1952
  6. The Brownie Scouts at Windmill Farm, 1953

The Dana Girls Mystery Stories (as Carolyn Keene)

  5. The Secret at the Hermitage, 1936
  6. The Circle of Footprints, 1937
  7. The Mystery of the Locked Room, 1938
  8. The Clue in the Cobweb, 1939
  9. The Secret at the Gatehouse, 1940
10. The Mysterious Fireplace, 1941
11. The Clue of the Rusty Key, 1942
12. The Portrait in the Sand, 1943
13. The Secret in the Old Well, 1944
14. The Clue in the Ivy, 1952
15. The Secret of the Jade Ring, 1953
16. Mystery at the Crossroads, 1954

The Dan Carter Cub Scout Series (as Mildred A. Wirt)

  1. Dan Carter, Cub Scout, 1949
  2. Dan Carter and the River Camp, 1949
  3. Dan Carter and the Money Box, 1950
  4. Dan Carter and the Haunted Castle, 1951
  5. Dan Carter and the Great Carved Face, 1952
  6. Dan Carter and the Cub Honor, 1953

Doris Force Mystery Stories (as Julia K. Duncan)

  1. Doris Force at Locked Gates, 1931
  2. Doris Force at Cloudy Cove, 1931

Dot and Dash Books (as Dorothy West)

  1. Dot and Dash at the Maple Sugar Camp, 1938
  2. Dot and Dash at Happy Hollow, 1938
  3. Dot and Dash in the North Woods, 1938
  4. Dot and Dash in the Pumpkin Patch, 1939
  5. Dot and Dash at the Seashore, 1940

Flash Evans Books (as Frank Bell)

  1. Flash Evans and the Darkroom Mystery, 1940
  2. Flash Evans, Camera News Hawk, 1940

Girl Scouts Series (as Mildred A. Wirt)

  1. The Girl Scouts at Penguin Pass, 1953
  2. The Girl Scouts at Singing Sands, 1955
  3. The Girl Scouts at Mystery Mansion, 1957

Honey Bunch Books (as Helen Louise Thorndyke)

18. Honey Bunch, Her First Little Treasure Hunt, 1937
19. Honey Bunch, Her First Little Club, 1938
20. Honey Bunch, Her First Trip in a Trailer, 1939
21. Honey Bunch, Her First Trip to a Big Fair, 1940
22. Honey Bunch, Her First Twin Playmates, 1941

Individual Titles (as Mildred Benson)

Dangerous Deadline, 1957
Quarry Ghost, 1959
Kristie at College [Quarry Ghost], 1960

Connie Carl at Rainbow Ranch, 1939 (as Joan Clark)

Mystery at the Lookout, 1942 (as Carolyn Keene)

Individual Titles (as Mildred A. Wirt)

The Twin Ring Mystery, 1935
Sky Racers, 1935
Carolina Castle, 1936
Courageous Wings, 1937
Linda, 1940
Mystery of the Laughing Mask, 1940
Pirate Brig, 1950

Kay Tracey Mystery Stories (as Frances K. Judd)

  3. The Mystery of the Swaying Curtains, 1935
  4. The Shadow on the Door, 1935
  5. The Six Fingered Glove Mystery, 1936
  6. The Green Cameo Mystery, 1936
  7. The Secret at the Windmill, 1937
  8. Beneath the Crimson Brier Bush, 1937
  9. The Message in the Sand Dunes, 1938
10. The Murmuring Portrait, 1938
11. When the Key Turned, 1939
12. In the Sunken Garden, 1939
14. The Sacred Feather, 1940

The Madge Sterling Series (as Ann Wirt)

  1. The Missing Formula, 1932
  2. The Deserted Yacht, 1932
  3. The Secret of the Sundial, 1932

The Mildred A. Wirt Mystery Stories

The Clue at Crooked Lane, 1936
The Hollow Wall Mystery, 1936
The Shadow Stone, 1937
The Wooden Shoe Mystery, 1938
Through the Moon-Gate Door, 1938
Ghost Gables, 1939
The Painted Shield, 1939

The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories (as Carolyn Keene)

  1. The Secret of the Old Clock, 1930
  2. The Hidden Staircase, 1930
  3. The Bungalow Mystery, 1930
  4. The Mystery at Lilac Inn, 1930
  5. The Secret at Shadow Ranch, 1931
  6. The Secret of Red Gate Farm, 1931
  7. The Clue in the Diary, 1932
11. The Clue of the Broken Locket, 1934
12. The Message in the Hollow Oak, 1935
13. The Mystery of the Ivory Charm, 1936
14. The Whispering Statue, 1937
15. The Haunted Bridge, 1937
16. The Clue of the Tapping Heels, 1939
17. The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk, 1940
18. The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion, 1941
19. The Quest of the Missing Map, 1942
20. The Clue in the Jewel Box, 1943
21. The Secret in the Old Attic, 1944
22. The Clue in the Crumbling Wall, 1945
23. The Mystery of the Tolling Bell, 1946
24. The Clue in the Old Album, 1947
25. The Ghost of Blackwood Hall, 1948
30. The Clue of the Velvet Mask, 1953

The Penny Nichols Mystery Stories (as Joan Clark)

  1. Penny Nichols Finds a Clue, 1936
  2. Penny Nichols and the Mystery of the Lost Key, 1936
  3. Penny Nichols and the Black Imp, 1936
  4. Penny Nichols and the Knob Hill Mystery, 1939

The Penny Parker Mystery Stories (as Mildred A. Wirt)

  1. Tale of the Witch Doll, 1939
  2. The Vanishing Houseboat, 1939
  3. Danger at the Drawbridge, 1940
  4. Behind the Green Door, 1940
  5. Clue of the Silken Ladder, 1941
  6. The Secret Pact, 1941
  7. The Clock Strikes Thirteen, 1942
  8. The Wishing Well, 1942
  9. Ghost Beyond the Gate, 1943
10. Saboteurs on the River, 1943
11. Hoofbeats on the Turnpike, 1944
12. Voice from the Cave, 1944
13. Guilt of the Brass Thieves, 1945
14. Signal in the Dark, 1946
15. Whispering Walls, 1946
16. Swamp Island, 1947
17. The Cry at Midnight, 1947

The Ruth Darrow Flying Stories (as Mildred A. Wirt)

  1. Ruth Darrow in the Air Derby, 1930
  2. Ruth Darrow in the Fire Patrol, 1930
  3. Ruth Darrow in the Coast Guard, 1931
  4. Ruth Darrow in Yucatan, 1931

The Ruth Fielding Series (as Alice B. Emerson)

23. Ruth Fielding and Her Great Scenario, 1927
24. Ruth Fielding at Cameron Hall, 1928
25. Ruth Fielding Clearing Her Name, 1929
26. Ruth Fielding in Talking Pictures, 1930
27. Ruth Fielding and Baby June, 1931
28. Ruth Fielding and Her Double, 1932
29. Ruth Fielding and Her Greatest Triumph, 1933
30. Ruth Fielding and Her Crowning Victory, 1934

Trailer Stories for Girls (as Mildred A. Wirt)

 1. The Runaway Caravan, 1937
 2. The Crimson Cruiser, 1937
 3. Timbered Treasure, 1937
 4. The Phantom Trailer, 1938 

Kay Tracey #7 The Secret at the Windmill

In Kay Tracey #7, The Secret at the Windmill, Kay sees her old friend, Juliana Van Camp, again after several years.  Juliana is engaged, but her guardian, Mr. Skelly, forbids the wedding.  Mr. Skelly is in charge of Juliana's estate, and Juliana learns that he has squandered the money.  Juliana runs away, and Kay tries to find her.  The search leads Kay to a country home that has a Dutch windmill.

Kay and her friends are out of school for the summer and plan to go to Lost Lake again like they did during the previous summer.  Hmm.  This means that a year has passed since the first story in the series.  The only problem is that the girls have not gotten older.

On page 2, the reader learns that Betty is plump, which has never been mentioned in previous books.  Kay is described as "the acknowledged leader of the trio, outstanding in school activities, and for that matter clever at anything to which she turned her hand."  Again, Kay is just like the revised text era Nancy Drew.

This book is full of mishaps and unfortunate events.  Ethel loses her algebra book and takes Kay's book.  Kay's hand gets burned in a fire.  A dog gets run over and killed.  Kay hits her head hard.  Kay's ankle slips into hot coals.

When Mr. Skelly fires his housekeeper and goes to pick up his new employee, Kay and her friends take it upon themselves to sabotage his house.  They turn off the electricity and cover the furniture.

Later, Kay enters Juliana's house when no one is home so that she can take Juliana's clothes back to the store.  Kay does this because she has learned that Juliana will be unable to pay for the clothes due to the loss of her inheritance.  Kay is quite a meddler.

On page 115, Kay has received a letter, so she gets permission from her friends before she opens the letter to read it.  Ah, such manners.  Nowadays, people are rudely engrossed with their phones while ignoring their companions.

Kay hides $10,000 in a windmill.  She checks on the money on page 158, while reflecting that hiding the money in the windmill was not a good idea.  You think?

This book loosely reminds me of Trixie Belden #16, The Mystery of the Missing Heiress.  That book has a character named Juliana who is supposed to receive an inheritance.  The Trixie Belden book has a Dutch connection as well.

The text was not revised for the editions published by Garden City and Books, Inc.

I enjoyed the first part of the book, but I found the second half to be partially boring.