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<p><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Do you dare enter Dr. Frankenstein's la-BOR-uh-tree? </em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A fearless quartet of </span><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>teen sleuths</strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> the Botanic Hill </span><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>detectives</strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> travel to Llanfair a fictitious </span><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Welsh</strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> village in present-day </span><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>California</strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> to solve the mystery of the </span><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Shocking Specter</strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. The </span><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>green-glowing apparition</strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> reportedly roams the countryside setting fire to buildings and meadows during the new moon. The occurrences began shortly after a motion picture stagehand Scotty Roberts's accidental death by electrocution in this case inspired by the filming of </span><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Universal Pictures' 1931 classic horror movie <em>Frankenstein</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. Supernatural? Coincidence? Or is criminal activity at work? And why nearly a century later has the Shocking Specter returned? Readers will enjoy learning about real-life horror film star </span><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Boris Karloff <em>Frankenstein</em> author Mary Shelley other key players in the movie's production</strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> and </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>some </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>early Hollywood cinematic history</strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. Our fabulous four might need to kick some </span><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>monsters</strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> to the curb to solve this </span><strong style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>challenging mystery</strong><span style=color: rgba(29 34 40 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>!</span></p>