Beverly Gray at the World’s Fair (Beverly Gray #6). Clair Blank. New York: A. L. Burt; Blue Ri
Beverly Gray at the World’s Fair (Beverly Gray #6). Clair Blank. New York: A. L. Burt; Blue Ribbon Books, 1935. First edition. Original dust jacket.Some days after joining forces in Chicago, the four girls witness the murder of a high diver, Paul Graham, during a show at the lagoon theater. Paul fails to surface following his “famous three somersault dive,” and it emerges that he was “shot with a high powered air rifle.” Suspicion falls on John Cummings, described as the “best friend” of the Grahams and their late uncle, and for whom Beverly harbors immediate misgivings. “There is something about him that makes me mistrust him,” she tells Lenora. “He reminds me of a snake.” Lenora resolves to “follow him like his shadow” with her “Cine-Kodak eight,” and soon thereafter films him loosening the wires on a trapeze about to be used by Paul’s sister, June. -- source link
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