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The Clock Strikes Thirteen

(1942)
(The seventh book in the Penny Parker Mystery series)
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Sinister hooded riders are terrorizing farmers at night, and most of the farmers are reluctant to talk. Meanwhile, a man named Blake makes a generous donation to the Riverview orphan's camp and offers to buy their land, but Penny suspects that he is somehow trying to cheat the orphans. (Penny Parker #7)

Mildred A. Wirt Benson (1905-2002) was a prolific author of books for young readers. A trained journalist, Benson is best known as a ghostwriter for the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Under the house pen-name Carolyn Keene, Benson completed 23 of the first 25 Nancy Drew mysteries and wrote a number of others until 1984. Benson also wrote her own mystery series, Penny Parker, from the 1930s to the 1950s.

This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.


Genre: Young Adult Fiction

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