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Meg and the Secret of the Witch's Stairway

(1978)
(A book in the Meg series)
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From Wikipedia: The Meg Duncan books are a series of six juvenile mystery books originally published by Western Publishing between 1967 and 1972 and reprinted in 1978. They were written by Holly Beth Walker (a pseudonym) and illustrated by Cliff Shule. First printed under Western Publishing's hardback-imprint formats, they were later reprinted as paperbacks. ~~~ Margaret Ashley Duncan, a girl of unspecified age, solves mysteries with the help of her best friend, Kerry Carmody. Four of the books are set near Meg's hometown of Hidden Springs, Virginia; the rest take place when Meg and Kerry travel with Meg's Uncle Hal. ~~~ The Meg books were originally published from 1967 to 1972 under two of Western Publishing's hardback imprints. ~~~ A Whitman Mystery Meg books have illustrated board covers and no dust-jacket. The volumes measure 7¾ × 5 inches with an average length of 138 pages. Single-color Illustrations are by Cliff Schule. The spine-numbered A Whitman Mystery books are in this order: 1.Meg and the Disappearing Diamonds (1967) 2.Meg and the Secret of the Witch's Stairway (1967) 3.Meg and the Mystery of the Black-Magic Cave (1971) 4.Meg and the Ghost of the Hidden Springs (1970) 5.Meg and the Treasure Nobody Saw (1970) 6.Meg and the Mystery in Williamsburg (1972) ~~~ Golden Press Meg paperbacks measure 7? × 4? inches, with an average length of 138 pages. The covers have a yellow background with new cover illustrations by Olindo Giacomini. Cliff Schule's illustrations are still used through the book. The illustrations are in one color, and are the line drawings used in A Whitman Mystery books. The spine and front cover-numbered Golden Press books are in this order: 1.Meg and the Disappearing Diamonds (1967, 1978) 2.Meg and the Secret of the Witch's Stairway (1967, 1978) 3.Meg and the Treasure Nobody Saw (1970, 1978) 4.Meg and the Ghost of the Hidden Springs (1970, 1978) 5.Meg and the Mystery of the Black-Magic Cave (1971, 1978) 6.Meg and the Mystery in..

Genre: Mystery

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