Mystery and suspense

Seven Strange Clues

by Margaret Sutton

214 pages · First published 1932

Judy Bolton’s curiosity is stirred by a series of puzzling clues that seem unrelated until she begins testing the connections among them. Friends and family become involved as ordinary places around Roulsville and Dry Brook Hollow take on a more suspicious cast. Judy’s willingness to follow details adults dismiss places her close enough to the truth for the mystery to become dangerous. Margaret Sutton’s early Judy Bolton adventure combines teenage sleuthing, family life, and the series’ characteristic emphasis on a heroine whose mysteries grow out of the changing world around her.