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Jean and Louise Dana spend spring break with their friends from Starhurst School in Horizon, a seaside town on the Atlantic coast undergoing a restoration to its original Victorian character. The restoration is troubled by ongoing thievery and sabotage: a lumber theft, suspicious signals from an abandoned lighthouse, and the eerie sight of a nocturnal surfer who repeatedly vanishes before reaching the shore. Caught up in these mysteries, the Dana sisters and their dates, Chris Barton and Ken Scott, must unravel what is happening in Horizon and protect the town’s historic revival.
First publish date: 1968
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson
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