The Mystery at Willow Manor (Lavender Series Book 8)

A mysterious ‘phantom’ in a hooded cloak, a summer stock company performing an off-Broadway play, an old theater and an illusive shadow puts Thor’s and Tana’s sleuthing abilities to the test.

When Tana receives a letter from a friend in New York, she and Brook are invited to come and stay for the summer at an old mansion on Long Island while Thor and Johnny are involved in training pilots for the ‘stealth’ planes the Air Force is building at a nearby base. After she and Brook arrive in New York they are told about a stranger dressed in a red cloak who is often seen in the vicinity of the old theater which hasn’t been used in many years. And, whenever anyone has tried to learn who the person is, he disappears like a vapor, seen one moment then gone the next. Who is the mysterious ‘phantom’ stalking the stock company players at the old theater? How does this person ‘vanish’ every time the girls try to discover what he’s up to? Who is Miss Venus trying to protect? Who is Bard Barrett and how does his devious plans fit into the whole picture at Willow Manor?

Will Tana and Brook be able to put an end to the ‘phantom’s’ work and make the old theater yield up its secrets before someone gets hurt? When Tana and Brook investigate and try to learn the answers to the strange things happening in and around the old place, they become involved in one of the most perplexing mysteries they had yet encountered.