The Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor - Hardcover

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

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9780689318023: The Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689318022 ISBN 13: 9780689318023

Publisher: Atheneum, 1993

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Bernie Magruder sets out to investigate a mysterious intruder whom he see climbing the fire escape at the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor and finds himself embroiled with an embezzling business executive, mysterious undertakers, and other shenanigans.

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Everyone in Middleburg is talking about the new drive-in viewing window at the Bessledorf Funeral Home -- at least until the vice president of the Higgins Roofing Company disappears along with the company's pension fund, leaving behind only a mysterious chuck roast. For Bernie, it's his chance to get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest person ever to capture a criminal -- he just wishes the case weren't leading him to the creepy goings-on at the funeral home.

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"Fans of the previous Bessledorf books will not be disappointed . . ."
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