Title: Gilda Joyce, psychic investigator
Description: During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.
Subjects: Fathers and daughters, Suicide, Psychic ability, Dysfunctional families, Cousins, Gilda Joyce (Fictitious character), Juvenile fiction
Places: San Francisco (Calif.)