The Ghosts of the Palace (Ink Blood), Paperback Book, By: Grimes, Martha

Become a celebrity in Spirit Lake after having elucidated two murders, the young Emma Graham, twelve, is asked by the local newspaper to write a soap opera recounting her adventures. In the grip of the blank page syndrome, searching the past in search of inspiration, she is interested in a palace, the Belle Rouen, destroyed in a fire twenty years earlier. She discovers during her research that the baby of a couple of wealthy New Yorkers was abducted there some time before the disaster. A case never resolved and of which, strangely, the press spoke very little at the time. It does not take more for the Sherlock in a petticoat to launch into the investigation, moving heaven and earth to find witnesses, unearthing old family secrets . . .