"How soon can you come? Because we need your help. Something ominous is afoot... there are unseen presences about..." That message from his cousins was all that James Gregory Smith, Jr., needed to start packing. When he took the train on that perfectly ordinary afternoon in March he headed straight for a most extraordinary mystery. Suspense mounted and so did the clues as James searched for answers to strange tracks, sounds, and apparitions. Helping were co-sleuths: Amanda Little- a girl poet wih a wild imagination and a temperament to match- Obie Little- short on words, long on thought, a born mechanic who knew how to put two and two together- Maggie- a shaggy dog who didn't trust anyone. All were snowbound at Walkaway Hill, an isolated farmhouse, during the longest, whitest, and strangest weekend James had ever spent anywhere!
Author
Edward Fenton is the author of many books for young readers, including The Phantom of Walkway Hill, which won the Edgar Award for the best juvenile mystery of its year. His three translations of the Greek write Alki Zei have all received the Mildred L. Batchelder Award for outstanding books translated from a foreign language. In addition, his poems and stories have appeared in several magazines, among them The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Cricket, and The Horn Book. Mr. Fenton was born in New York City, but is "Greek by adoption." he and his wife, Sophia Havarti, a well-known educator and child psychologist, live in Athens and in Galixidi, an old sea captain's village on the coast near Delphi.
