Where Was Everyone When Sabrina Screamed?

by Amelia Elizabeth Walden

A girl detective on the trail of a runaway in Morocco becomes involved in cracking an international drug smuggling ring.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

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 5 out of 5]

This is the 4th and last book in the Lisa Clark detective series. Lisa is an international detective but the books come off more as spy stories. They are very exciting. Books #1 and #2 mostly feature Lisa's 40 something year-old partner Jake Jefferson but in books #3 and #4 Lisa is front and center the main character.

The book begins with a secret midnight meeting of Lisa with a famous actor in the North Sea. He asks her to search for his step-daughter, Linda, who frequently changes her name. He feels that she is in danger and incidentally- Lisa's partner Jake is about to be "taken out". So starts a trail across Morocco in search of the step-daughter who, as you guessed, goes by the name Sabrina. Jake is lying in a Moroccan hospital near death after an ambush and the international detectives he was meeting have scattered. What does Sabrina know that makes her a target?

It's a shame that Walden only wrote 4 books in this exciting series.