The Bell of the Four Evangelists

This story tells of the unravelling of a mystery, and like other books by Violet Needham, is not easy to stop reading. The heroine, a small girl called Penelope, feels that there is some strange secret about Marvel's Folly from the moment that she goes to stay in the old house with her invalid cousin. "Queer things happen by moonlight and the owl's cry," the old gardener warned her, and as the summer passes events become more and more intriguing and very certainly queer. In the same exciting tradition as The Black Riders and The Changeling of Monte Lucio this is a book that will be enjoyed by both boys and girls.