Title: The black opal
Description: Laurel Stanwood a young freshman with journalistic ambitions, stumbles upon the story of an unsolved murder, which occurred many years earlier at the old Sagamore inn nearby the campus and involves the theft of a rare black opal. The final solving of the mystery by Laurel and her friends proves an important scoop  and exciting honor for the campus paper for which she  reports.
Subjects: Black opal, mystery, College
Places: Southern Michigan, Walkers Tavern.
People: Laurel Stanwood
Time periods: 1949, Mystery solved by College students