An edition of The Hollow Chest (1941)

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An edition of The Hollow Chest (1941)

The Hollow Chest

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Witherall returns home after escorting the Fifth Form on their annual outing--a day informally known as "Egg Day." While the point is to have a field trip that involves a rousing game of Fox and Hounds (with one boy playing the fox), every good fifth former knows to conceal eggs about his person because somebody, somewhere along the way is going to need a good egging. When a General who is directing practice maneuvers comes into their sights--in a tank, no less--they know they have found their target. Witherall has to lead the boys in a strategic retreat and finally winds up back at the school with all the boys intact....or so he thinks. He later learns that at some point they picked up a stray boy and lost the fox, Sandy Threewit--who just happens to be the ward of a very rich, very prominent lady who just might have money to donate to the Academy. after returning home from these adventures, Witherall finds his home ransacked and a beautiful girl (who he doesn't know) bound, blindfolded, and gagged on his bed upstairs. He starts to untie her bonds when the police arrive. He manages to convince them that nothing strange is going on (he doesn't want to much attention from the police lest they discover that he's the man who was shepherding the boys who egged the general) and when he goes back upstairs he finds that the girl has disappeared. Next up is a phone call from Mrs. Vandercook (guardian to the lost Threewit), she's not calling to inquire about the boy (thankfully), but she wants Witherall to dress up in formal wear, go the corner of Eighth and Oak Streets, collect George and go to the Corner of Elm and Oak.

Witherall attempts to do this and winds up finding people (and horses) who answer to the name George, a dead body in a car, an empty chest, and a mystery surrounding some missing bonds. Instead of collecting "George," he collects a couple of young women, a soldier named Goldie, and the General who his boys had egged and together they get to the bottom of who killed the man in the car, who stole the missing bonds, and what happened to young Threewit.

Publish Date
Publisher
Countryman Pr
Language
English
Pages
284

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The Hollow Chest
The Hollow Chest
September 1988, Countryman Pr
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Hollow Chest
The Hollow Chest
1970, W.W. Norton & Company Inc.
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Hollow Chest
The Hollow Chest
1968, Popular Library
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Hollow Chest
The Hollow Chest: A Leonidas Witherall Mystery
1941-01-01, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., NY
Cover of: The Hollow Chest
The Hollow Chest
June 1941, W.W. Norton & Company
Hardcover in English

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The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
284
Dimensions
7 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
Weight
8 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8173644M
Internet Archive
hollowchest0000phoe_n5u4
ISBN 10
0881501204
ISBN 13
9780881501209
OCLC/WorldCat
18941451
Library Thing
293330
Goodreads
2443421

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