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The Mystery of the Emeralds (Trixie Belden #14)
Trixie’s on the trail of a century-old mystery! She’s headed to Williamsburg, Virginia, to find an old plantation house, Rosewood Hall, that was the home to the Sunderland family during the Civil War. Rumor has it that a cursed emerald necklace is buried in a secret passageway there. But after all that time, Rosewood Hall is just a ruin. Is it too late for Trixie to find t...more
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published
January 24th 2006
by Random House Books for Young Readers
(first published 1965)
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These four books in a row in the series (12, 13, 14, 15) and the perfect summer travelogue. This book takes the Bob-Whites (minus Dan...of course) to Virginia, with a stop in Washington D.C. along the way, for a decades old mystery discovered in the Belden's Sleepyside attic. Loved the connection to the Underground Railroad that sparked the mystery. Loved the old house with its secret tunnel.
My husband thinks I have too many books. While I don't think there is such a thing, I am trying to purge. I have been rereading my childhood books. I don't usually put them in here, but this book was my favorite Trixie Belden book so far, so I thought I'd put it in here as a reminder of these classic books. A bit old-fashioned at this point, but enjoyable.
Funny book! How come I never understood before that Dan's presence in the series is solely to add socioeconomic diversity to the Bob-Whites? Why is a hundred-year-old mystery involving a necklace treated with exactly the same intensity as present-day mysteries involving kidnappings and murdered sheep? (Trixie keeps getting pale and sick and desperate when the smallest roadblock comes up in the mystery that she's just GOT to solve.) Trixie keeps drooling over the paralyzed guy who is oh-so-handso...more
One of my favorite Trixie volumes. Trixie and her mother are cleaning out the attic of their very old New York state farmhouse. Trixie finds a hidden room and discovers her house was once part of the underground railroad. She finds a letter mentioning some lost emeralds. Unfortunately, the emerald appear to be lost in Virginia, and she is in New York. The end. Ha! No, not really. Fabulously wealthy friend Diana Lynch cons her parents into taking Trixie and her siblings and friends with t...more
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Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the emeralds (Trixie Belden library) by Kathryn Kenny (1977)
This is my favorite Trixie.
SM
These are such fun books! They were written in the 60's and I read them all in the 70's. When my son had to read a mystery book for a school report, I picked a few of these up from the library. Loved them again!
Although I loved all of the Trixie Belden Books, the mystery of the emeralds was truly the jewel in Kathryn Kenny's crown. This is also where i learned the word "dungaree." I wish i used it more often.
I loved this whole series my Mom passed them all down to me.
Oh Trixie...still geting into trouble??? Will you never learn???
I liked this one. (partually because my birthstone is emeralds)
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The Kathryn Kenny pseudonym was created by Western Publishing House in 1961, three years after Julie Campbell wrote her last book (#6) of the Trixie Belden series. There were several ghost writers who wrote Trixie Belden stories under this pseudonym. Some have been identified and later credited but some are still unknown.
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