The Girl at the End of the Line: A Mystery (Girl Series)

Molly OHaras young sister Nell is beautiful spirited and sweet and the fact that she hasnt spoken for the last seventeen years--since she was eight--certainly doesnt reflect on her intelligence. After all its Nell who does the books for Enchanted Cottage Antiques which she and her sister operate jointly. Truth is Nell was home alone with their mother when the woman was murdered and from that day forward Nell hasnt spoken. She understands she can make herself understood; its just that she doesnt utter a word. . Rummaging in boxes at a tag sale Nell comes across an old New York theater Playbill that will change the girls lives. It will break the monotony of their rather lonely existence in the small North Carolina town from which they have never ventured--and will also shatter the peace theyve managed to achieve there. It will send them rocketing to New York to England and to New England in search of a family they didnt know they had. And it will introduce them--and the reader--to as zany a group of relatives as ever bickered over a dog show or a fortune. . The cover of the program bears a photo of a lovely young actress in her first big part on the New York stage. And amazingly the woman is their crusty old grandmother. But when they rush to question the old woman they arrive to find that she has baffled the medical staff who saw no reason to expect it by dying in her bed. . The sisters and especially Molly who is more stubborn and goal-oriented by nature realize that somewhere they have a family. But in their town the only sources of information are their stepfather whom they almost never see--and he cant or wont tell them much--and their natural father who is married to a wealthy society woman and is embarrassed by his somewhat unconventional offspring and eager to shoo them away. So they determine to go off on a search of their own. . Their travels bring adventure and exhilaration as they have the new and wonderful experience of seeing New York and London and meeting such exotic fauna as professional actors. But it also brings tragedy as accidents occur around them starting with a fatal explosion in their house when they are away. These are dauntless young women though and charming ones and the reader will very much enjoy going along with them on their eye-opening journeys and will root for them all along the way.