The Clock Strikes Thirteen
By: by Mildred A. Wirt.
Series: Penny Parker Mystery Stories #7
Publisher: Cupples & Leon Co.
Published: 1942
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Parker, Penny (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction.; Women detectives -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile mystery
Description: 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 links the hooded bandits to Blake and prevents the orphans from being cheated.