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Ghost Beyond the Gate

PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny is self-sufficient, outspoken, and extraordinarily tenacious. Penny was the creation of Mildred A. Wirt, who was also the author of the original Nancy Drew series (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene). Wirt once said, " 'I always thought Penny Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy is." In THE GHOST BEYOND THE GATE, Penny's father mysteriously disappears in the wake of an accient. Penny must take over running the Riverview Star while trying to locate the missing editor and investigate a series of audacious thefts. - Summary by Cheryl Adam (4 hr 38 min)

Chapters

Lost on a Hilltop

13:07

At the Listening Post

11:45

An Unpleasant Driver

6:56

Stolen Tires

12:14

An Important Interview

11:00

Front Page News

11:27

Questions without Answers

8:20

A Few Changes

14:17

An Open Safe

9:32

Tale of a Ghost

13:44

By a Cemetery Wall

9:43

Flight

10:58

A Black Market

9:01

A Familiar Figure

14:00

Ghost in the Garden

9:43

A Door in a Box

11:57

Adventure by Moonlight

11:14

Through a Cellar Window

11:31

A Baffling Search

8:12

Accusations

11:35

Mrs. Botts' Revelation

9:17

A Park Bench

8:52

Forgotten Events

13:20

Trickery

17:00

Final Edition

9:22