Ruth Fielding Down East: Or: The Hermit of Beach Plum Point

Ruth Fielding #16

by Alice B. Emerson

illustrated

Genres: Mystery

154 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1920

About the author

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).

Series:
* Betty Gordon
* Ruth Fielding

Reviews

[Erin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ruth and the gang are home (how nice that Tom and Henri got a vacation from the war!) and Ruth acts like an idiot by writing one of her scenarios, but refusing to tell anyone about it. Then it gets stolen, of course, but she finds the thief, of course. Oh, and near death by drowning, this time, while out in a boat.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the best in the series, and very clearly not set in Maine, as it purports. It continues the trend from book 15 of having a narrator besides Ruth in some chapters, in this case, Mr. Hammond of the Alectrion Film Company.