Walnut Street: Phantom Rider (The Botanic Hill Detectives Mysteries) - Softcover

Joseph, Sherrill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1952112702 ISBN 13: 9781952112706

Publisher: Acorn Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

♥ MG Book of the Year--The Golden Boar Awards; Juvenile Fiction--The Firebird Awards

★ "The perfect combination of suspense and charm." --Amazon Reader's Review

Kids, get ready to meet the Phantom Rider!

Objects of value have been disappearing from the Mayfield family’s rural California horse ranch. The Botanic Hill Detectives—Moki Kalani, Rani Kumar, and twins Lanny and Lexi Wyatt—are hired to come for a week to investigate.

Legend has it somewhere on the Mayfields’ forty-acre property is a long-lost gold mine. It was supposedly staked by thirteen-year-old Ben Mayfield’s five-time great-grandfather, Aloysius “Papa” Mayfield, in 1875.

Adding to the excitement, a nervous Ben reveals a frightening secret to the detectives. At the ranch, he alone has seen a threatening black-clad figure on horseback whom he calls the Phantom Rider. Who is this mysterious person? Is he responsible for the thefts? Where is the lost gold mine? And what’s going on in the nearby, snake-infested ghost town of Rainbow Flats? The four intrepid detectives aim to find out.

About this title

About the Author

Sherrill Joseph will be forever inspired by her beautiful students in the San Diego public schools where she taught for thirty-five years before retiring and becoming a published author.
 
She has peopled and themed her mysteries with characters of various abilities, races, cultures, and interests, strongly believing that children need to find themselves but also others unlike themselves in books if all are to become tolerant, anti-racist world citizens. 
 
Like her detective character Rani Kumar, Sherrill is a lexical-gustatory synesthete. She is a native San Diegan where she lives with her adorable poodle-bichon rescue, Jimmy Lambchop. Having never lived in a two-story house, she is naturally fascinated by staircases.
 
Sherrill is a member of SCBWI, the Authors Guild, and Blackbird Writers and promises many more adventures with the squad to come!

Edition details

• Publisher: Acorn Publishing
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1952112702
• ISBN 13: 9781952112706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 241