The Girl Scouts at Mystery Mansion
By: by Mildred A. Wirt; illustrated by Marguerite Gayer.
Contributors: Marguerite Gayer (Illustrator)
Edition: [1st edition]
Series: Girl Scouts #3
Publisher: Cupples & Leon Co.
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Girl Scouts -- Juvenile fiction.; Mystery and detective stories
Genres: Juvenile mystery fiction
Description: Someone has stolen the Beaver Patrol's funds, meaning they won't have the camp fee they need to go camping next summer.  In order to replace the money, Patrol decides to clean up the unoccupied Holiday mansion so it can be rented out.  They plan to spend the night at the mansion, but while they are there they hear sounds coming from behind a locked door and see smoke rising from a chimney where no fire has built.  They also find evidence that the owner abandoned the house was in a great rush.  With an unknown prowler on the premises, the Patrol may have to leave before dark.  Then Tina finds an old gold coin in the woods near the house, and together the girls investigate the mystery of Holiday Mansion.