Ghost Beyond the Gate
Author: first_name: Mildred A. Wirt
last_name: Benson
Language: English
Year: 1925

PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for  solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny is self-sufficient, outspoken, and extraordinarily tenacious.  Penny was the creation of Mildred A. Wirt, who was also the author of the original Nancy Drew series (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene). Wirt once said, " 'I always thought Penny Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy