Alice B. Emerson was a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Betty Gordon and Ruth Fielding series of children's novels. The writers taking up the pen of Alice B. Emerson were: Josephine Lawrence (Betty Gorson series #1-4, 7, 9), W. Bert Foster (Ruth Fielding series #1-19, Betty Gordon series #5,6), Elizabeth M. Duffield Ward (Ruth Fielding series #20-22, Betty Gordon series #8), Eunice W. Creager (Betty Gordon series #10-15) and Mildred Benson (Ruth Fielding series #23-30).
This just didn't have anything interesting going for it. It was a slow read, more about their first year at college ,then the mystery surrounding the missing girl and missing vase. (If you've read the series, you knew who the missing girl was from the beginning.😂)
A good bounceback from the last book in the series....this was shades of Grace Harlowe, in a good way. The only thing with college/school books is that the pacing is often strange: they spend oodles of time early on dialogue and secondary character development, and then rush through the last four months, including the mystery's solution, in a couple of chapters.