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Original Title:	The Vanishing Houseboat ASIN B004UJ9K5S
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Penny Parker Mystery Stories #2
Characters:	Penny Parker, Louise Sidell, Anthony Parker, Laura Blair, "Mud-Cat" Joe Gates, Gus Comstock, Mrs. Comstock, Jerry Livingstone, Maud Weems
Setting:	Riverview(United States) White Falls(United States)

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When Penny and Louise take their friend Laura Blair to apply for a new job, they accidentally discover several mysteries. Linda begins work in a boarding house known for strange disappearances. Meanwhile, Penny becomes acquainted with Mud-Cat Joe and his family who are homeless ever since their houseboat was stolen. Naturally, the two mysteries are connected, and Penny is able to help both Laura Blair and Mud-Cat Joe at the same time.

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Title	:	The Vanishing Houseboat (Penny Parker Mystery Stories #2)
Author	:	Mildred A. Wirt
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 165 pages
Published	:	by Amazon Digital Services, Inc. (first published 1939)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Young Adult. Classics

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Ratings: 3.79 From 111 Users | 19 Reviews

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Mildred A. Wirt, the author of the first several dozen Nancy Drew books under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene, penned another series a decade, this one featuring a younger, more puckish version of Nancy Drew in the form of Penny Parker. In The Vanishing Houseboat, Wirt came up with an excellent sequel to her first Penny Parker novel, Tale of the Witch Doll.Penny and her pal, Louise Sidell, give a ride to a down-on-her-luck former classmate, Laura Blair, who is applying for a maid's position in the

Mildred Wirt was the first author hired by the Stratemeyer Syndicate to write the Nancy Drew series. Constrained by specific phrases, attitudes and outfits, Wirt helped bring life to Nancy but felt more life was needed. She had the opportunity to write a character more like herself in Penny Parker. Wirt felt Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy. Penny was not perfectly polite nor was she as socially graced and Nancy. Wirt thought she was a lot more fun.Reading Penny Parker is like reading

Written in the late 1930's, a young adult mystery with a main character much like Nancy Drew. Fun read from a more innocent time.

Penny Parker and her friend Louise desire to each have a ham and cheese sandwich with olives at Rini's cafe. Have you ever heard of putting olives on a ham and cheese sandwich? I imagine that they would be green olives, but I am not sure so that is a mystery to me. At Rini's they find that an old school mate, Laura Blair, is the waitress, and before they can even finish their sandwiches, Laura is fired. So they decide to try to help her find a new job, one at a mysterious old mansion. It begins

Best of Best MysteriesLoved this book!It was a fun,very pleasant read. I'm ready for another mystery with Penny & Louise.Hard to put down...

I've never read any Nancy Drew books, but I remember my sisters reading them when we were growing up. Mildred Wirt wrote many of the Nancy Drew books, and my guess is that there's a similarity to this series of books. After all, if something works, why not reuse it?I doubt that this book is a very realistic portrayal of how things were in the U.S. in the late 1930s--but still, it's a glimpse. Quick to read and interesting just from that angle.

This is #2 in the Penny Parker series by Mildred Wirt. I am liking the series pretty well so far. I've had these books for awhile, but am just now getting to read them. Some of them were pretty hard to aquire. Two of them are reprints I purchased from Jim Towey.