The Ghost of a Mouse

by Frances Little


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 08/01/2002

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 208
ISBN : 9780759686632

About the Book

Mickey is stunned and grief-stricken after going to Rodney's home where she saw Barbara dying and a distraught Rodney. Mickey and Rodney were being protected by their relatives, friends, and parents from the public and the prying eyes of reporters. These same people, including Mickey, were asking who and why such a terrible thing had happened?

Mickey's mother was the most verbal. She had always feared one or both of her children, Maxene or Phillip, would be kidnapped for ransom to punish the Schmidt–Baker Banking and Investment Institution by some unknown enemy of the company.

Mickey is abducted from her parents' home and driven far away into the scrub, bare, desert mountains where she is accused of murdering Barbara. Mickey manages to escape on foot but is slightly grazed by a gunshot to the shoulder.

Mickey collapses from exhaustion and the abductor drives away. A miner finds Mickey wounded and shoeless about nightfall and carries her to his primitive camp and cares for her wound but has no way to get her home. There is no transportation or even any way of outside communication.

After a few weeks the miner's partner shows up in a van but refuses to help believing that, since the two are bearded and rough looking, they might be considered accomplices in the crime.

Tension in the camp grows and gets even higher. Finally, Mickey works out a way to get back home and the entire mystery is solved and her whole destiny in life is changed.


About the Author

Frances Little is a versatile and prolific writer. She has two university degrees; a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts. She is a multi-talented individual. It was while researching and writing for a textbook publishing company that she found California's mountains and deserts fascinating, captivating, and enchanting. Some of her fiction writing reflects this emotion. She didn't need to study or do much research about cities. She knows them and lives in one.

Being multi-talented her experiences include being a paid public speaker and a public school administrator. She is also a recognized artist.

Frances is also a world traveler. She has visited twelve European countries, Russia, and China. She was one of the first tourists permitted by the United States to visit China after President Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger re-established relationships.

At present her home is a neat and cozy Mediterranean style house located two blocks from the Pacific Ocean in the unique little city of Seal Beach, California.