Beverly Gray, Junior

Beverly Gray #3

by Clair Blank

Genres: Mystery

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1934

About the author

A year after her high school graduation in 1933, Clair Blank's first four books in the Beverly Gray series had been published -- she was a published author at the age of 18. In 1935, she wrote The Adventure Girls at the K Bar O and was immediately asked by the publisher for two additional stories so that it could be made into a series.

Clair Blank lived in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She graduated from college, became a typist and secretary, and during World War II worked as a volunteer for American Women’s Voluntary Services, a group that drove visiting Army officers around locally. She married George Elmer Moyer, a welder, in 1943 and had two sons.

Series:
* Beverly Gray
* The Adventure Girls

Reviews

[Jeanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Third in the series, this time Beverly get kidnapped by the Gypsies. You know, as you do. Larry and Jim come together to rescue her and with that mission complete, Larry proposes to Beverly and is turned down. Shirley goes home with Beverly for the holidays and they have a good time skiing, sledding and skating. Then Shirley gets a part in the class play and is trapped in the old Horler mansion (see Beverly Gray, sophomore) by her evil understudy, May. Luckily it all ends happily ever after. Wish real life was like that.

[Kaitlyn Dunnett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Improbable, but considering the author was barely out of her teens when she wrote the first four books in this series, I can forgive a lot. I'm determined to read through them all, in order. I still own all but Beverly Gray at the World's Fair, although I've also read that one. As I recall, the plotting, and the writing in general, improve greatly as the series goes on.

[Reading with Cats · Rating 4 out of 5]

About 50 pounds of (mostly insane) plot in a 10 pound sack 😂 And yet these are strangely charming.