THE SECRET OF THE CELLARS

This year's Calling All Girls Prize Competition winner has considerable enterprise, less enigma, and involves Tish, her brother Mike, and her best friend Sally in the attempts to expose The House on 96th Street right in their own small town. Suspicious that the old Upton place has been sold, sight unseen, to a Mr. John D. Smith who wanted a big, secure cellar, and by no means put off when they are told that it will have a refugee scientist from East Barlin as its tenant, they all get busy. Tish enrolls in the scientist's course at the local college, and Sally gets a job as a maid and dusts very thoroughly. Then there's the lake-front cottage they also investigate, with Mike, who then reports to the FBI who seem more offhand than they prove to be. But it is the youngsters, not without danger, who find a photolab, microfilm, impostors and "the secret of the cellars" as well as an attic... Girls will like Tish and Sally— they have lots of nerve and verse and the story moves right along. It will also do for their younger sisters.