Valerie Valentine is Missing

by Amelia Elizabeth Walden

While vacationing in Spain, Lisa Clark becomes involved in the search for a famous portrait painter who is missing.

188 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Amelia Elizabeth Walden was born January 15, 1909 in New York City, and died in 2002. After graduating from Columbia University in 1934, she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, also in New York. From 1935 to 1945 she taught English and Dramatics at Norwalk High School, Norwalk, Connecticut. In 1946 Miss Walden married John William Harmon. This was also the year that her first book was published. At the request of her editor she revised the manuscript, entitled Gateway, to fit a new genre emerging at the time, called the "young adult" novel which was aimed at a post-adolescent but not yet adult audience, approximately ages 16 to 18. She is considered a pioneer in this area of American literature. Miss Walden found success writing for this audience, and commented, "I respond to young people because I remember my own adolescence so vividly - and fondly. It was a period of total involvement, of enjoying life to the hilt."

Miss Walden wrote over 40 novels published by McGraw-Hill, Lippincott, William Morrow, The Westminster Press, and Appleton Century-Crofts. She was residing in Westport, Connecticut when she died.

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is book #3 in the Lisa Clark/Jake Jefferson detective agency series. In this book Lisa is the main character and Jake isn't even around until the end.

On vacation in Spain to get away from the ever critical Jake, Lisa is approached by a contact who wants her to find Valerie Valentine, the famous portrait painter. Before she knows it she's embroiled in a dangerous game that takes her from Spain to Italy, to Paris, to London all the time eluding dangerous men on her tail.