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The Unfinished House
Mystery and suspense
The Unfinished House
250 pages · First published 1938
Judy Bolton becomes intrigued by a house left unfinished, where abandoned construction and unanswered questions suggest that work stopped for reasons no one is eager to explain. Exploring the property connects the physical mystery of the building to the lives and secrets of people associated with it. What looks like an architectural curiosity becomes increasingly personal and potentially dangerous as Judy follows the clues. Margaret Sutton’s Judy Bolton mystery uses the incomplete house as an atmospheric puzzle about hidden histories, proving that what a building lacks can be as revealing as what remains.
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Violence, weapons, and peril · Mild frightening/intense material
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