Backstage with a Ghost

Casebusters #3

by Joan Lowery Nixon, Kathleen Collins Howell (Illustrator)

Brian and Sean investigate a series of suspicious accidents at a theater waiting to be torn down.

Genres: Mystery, Childrens, Fiction

98 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Author of more than one hundred books, Joan Lowery Nixon is the only writer to have won four Edgar Allan Poe Awards for Juvenile Mysteries (and been nominated several other times) from the Mystery Writers of America. Creating contemporary teenage characters who have both a personal problem and a mystery to solve, Nixon captured the attention of legions of teenage readers since the publication of her first YA novel more than twenty years ago. In addition to mystery/suspense novels, she wrote nonfiction and fiction for children and middle graders, as well as several short stories. Nixon was the first person to write novels for teens about the orphan trains of the nineteenth century. She followed those with historical novels about Ellis Island and, more recently for younger readers, Colonial Williamsburg. Joan Lowery Nixon died on June 28, 2003—a great loss for all of us.

Reviews

[Sylvia]

Good book!! Good story!!

[Emily]

Another book my kids are reading.