Mystery Box

Were Carolyn Keen and Franklin Dixon just made-up names, or were they real authors who kept their lives a mystery? In Mystery Box Gordon McAlpine masterfully invents the world as it might have been if Carolyn and Franklin had lived and met among the glittering expatriates in 1920s Paris. Frank is a private detective, hunting not only for missing heiresses and stolen jewels but also for answers to his painful past. Carolyn works for a fashion magazine, yearning to know both how to write for real and how to forgive in a world full of betrayal and disillusionment. With the friendship, wit, and wisdom of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein, Frank and Carolyn find each other - and the truths revealed in their soon-to-be-written fictions.

Hardcover  194 pgs.  
Suggested for ages: 16-99
Product Code: KBK62680