Miriam Jones Bradley
Forfatter af The Double Cousins and the Mystery of the Missing Watch
Om forfatteren
Serier
Værker af Miriam Jones Bradley
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1962
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bopæl
- Rapid City, South Dakota, USA
Newberry, South Carolina, USA - Erhverv
- Nurse
Medlemmer
Anmeldelser
Statistikker
- Værker
- 6
- Medlemmer
- 16
- Popularitet
- #679,947
- Vurdering
- 4.1
- Anmeldelser
- 2
- ISBN
- 8
In The Mystery of the Torn Map, Slim, who has returned home, e-mails to ask if Grandpa, Grandma, and the kids can come to Lamar, CO, and help him solve another mystery related to Zach/Zedekiah. His dad had bought an old clock and found a torn piece of a map that matches another piece that had been left by Zach/Zedekiah. After talking to the former owner of the clock, Miss Belle Cox, whose grandfather Matthew Stover was a partner with Zachary Johnson, and her great-nephew Dexter, off they go to Creede, CO, where she tells them that the two young men had once lived. However, while looking for information about Matthew and Zach and seeing a newspaper report about a bank robbery in nearby Pueblo, CO, in 1891 by two young men, they find out that someone in a blue pickup truck is following them, spying on them, even steals Carly’s copy of the map out of her Bible in the van, and then throws the Bible in the trash. Who is he? What is he up to? And will they ever find any more information about what happened to Zachary? Was he a bank robber?
The plot of this book is well thought out with good suspense, and youngsters, especially mystery fans, will find it exciting reading that is hard to put down. It is always a pleasure to read even fiction stories where people’s lives and actions are guided by their faith in God. It’s also nice to read about children who are mannerly, polite, and well-behaved. Oh, these kids aren’t perfect. They get impatient, pout a little, and make other mistakes, but Grandma and Grandpa are there to help remind them what’s really important. As a result, they learn some valuable lessons. Indeed, the portrayal of intergenerational relationships in this loving family is quite commendable. And there’s an added bonus. The reason that the kids can go on this mystery-solving trip so late in the summer is, as Max’s dad explains, “We weren’t going to start with your home school until after Labor Day this year.” Isn’t it wonderful not to be tied down to some schedule worked out by an educational bureaucrat? This is a great read!… (mere)