THE POPLAR COVE TRIBUNE
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The Secret of St. Gabriel's Tower is the first novel of a proposed trilogy involving three eleven year-old best friends who live in a fictionalized "colored" town in Northern California. The date is the late 1920s. The girls' names are Amber Walker, Robyn Jones and Jessica Johnson. They are so close that one rarely sees one without the others to where they are nicknamed, The Triplets, by the town's people.
Ruthie Joan, one of The Triplets' classmates and the only one in the TriCove area to contract polio, does not return home one day after she accepts a ride in a car with a boy from another town. What happened to Ruthie Joan? Was she kidnapped? Did she fall over one of the many cliffs that front the town of Poplar Cove near the Pacific Ocean? Did she run away? Who better to find out what happened to Ruthie Joan that The Triplets? What is the Secret of St. Gabriel's Tower? What exactly is St. Gabriel's Tower? All will be answered in the first of A Poplar Cove Mystery.
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Sam Peterson, Poplar Cove's barber, misses his regularly scheduled Saturday appointment with Mayor Walker, Amber's father. It is six months after the disappearance of Ruthie Joan. Normalcy has almost returned to Poplar Cove. The Triplets are bored. Christmas is a week away.
The girls learn that something has happened to Mr. Peterson. What a better way to start Christmas vacation but with a mystery to solve? They decide that whatever has happened to Mr. Peterson their new substitute teacher, Miss Swanson is somehow responsible, or is she? The Triplets search for clues and discover secrets about Mr. Peterson, and Miss Swanson.
Publication date for "The Secret of Morton's End"; the second of A Poplar Cove Mystery to be announced.
The third of A Poplar Cove Mystery; The Secret of Sugarman's Circus will be published on a date to be announced.
It is near the Fourth of July 1929. A traveling circus breaks down just outside Poplar Cove. The Triplets are fascinated by one of the performers. When she is discovered dead the girls believe they know who killed her or have they? Learn about the world's most famous African-American circus and of further adventures of The Triplets.
Editor: Patricia E. Canterbury, author of A Poplar Cove Mystery
Email: patmyst@aol.com
Website:www.patmyst.com
Publisher: Author is currently seeking a publisher to complete this series.