Project Gutenberg 2013-08-28 Public domain in the USA. 64 Lavell, Edith The Mystery of the Secret Band E-text prepared by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) "The Mystery of the Secret Band" by Edith Lavell is a young adult mystery novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the resourceful and ambitious protagonist, Mary Louise, who aspires to follow in her father's footsteps as a detective. As Christmas approaches, she is presented with an opportunity to solve a series of thefts at a boarding house in Philadelphia, leading her into a web of intrigue and a search for a missing girl. The opening of the novel establishes a cozy, festive atmosphere as Mary Louise returns home from a school entertainment, filled with excitement for her vacation. However, she quickly learns of a troubling situation involving a hotel for women where valuables have gone missing. After a discussion with her father, a detective, Mary Louise eagerly accepts a job to investigate the thefts, despite the potential to miss out on holiday festivities with her friends. Her determination to prove herself and follow her detective instincts sets the stage for a compelling adventure filled with mystery, danger, and the promise of self-discovery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43584/43584-h/images/cover.jpg en Detective and mystery stories Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction Thieves -- Juvenile fiction Women detectives -- Juvenile fiction Children of police -- Juvenile fiction Hotels -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Fiction 328358 328215 2024-09-18T09:53:55.982003 2023-09-19T05:55:50.992817 text/html text/html 341606 2013-08-28T14:49:16 text/html 199044 2013-08-28T14:53:24 text/html application/zip 205568 2024-09-18T09:54:02.717001 application/epub+zip 216742 2024-09-18T09:53:57.743035 application/epub+zip 150724 2024-09-18T09:53:56.913000 application/epub+zip 321656 2024-09-18T09:54:06.308968 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 293190 2024-09-18T09:54:01.930967 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 227474 2022-09-19T20:38:33.099679 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 282353 282246 2024-09-18T09:53:54.938023 2023-09-19T05:55:50.016811 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 282007 2013-08-28T14:28:03 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 101698 2013-08-28T14:28:03 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 282014 2013-08-28T14:28:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 101693 2013-08-28T14:28:03 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21121 2024-09-18T09:54:06.454937 application/rdf+xml 13736 2024-09-18T09:53:57.011005 image/jpeg 2432 2024-09-18T09:53:56.960989 image/jpeg 201797 2024-09-18T09:53:56.016003 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog