Here is a story with a modern background that is sure to satisfy the natural craving of boys and girls under twelve for mystery stories, written by an author with a rare gift for finding thrilling mysteries in everyday life.

A letter is lost—is a very puzzling way—and much depends on its finding. Kenneth and Marilyn care a lot about the soldier who wrote it and the friend in their little New York State village to whom it was written, and they throw themselves with a will into the exciting plot of suspense and surprise that leads at last to its recovery.

As Phyllis Fenner, librarian and critic, says: "Mrs. Orton's stories are something more than good mysteries." It's a plot that could happen to any boy or girl and it makes a story that will be read and reread for its likeable people, its fun and its excitement.

From the dust jacket of Mystery up the Winding Stair