The Gray Ghost: A Seckatary Hawkins Mystery

by Robert F. Schulkers, Randy Schulkers (Introduction), Diane Schneider (Introduction)

Overview

Everyone thought Stoner's Boy was dead. Seckatary Hawkins and the other boys saw him take that terrible fall into the cliff cave abyss. But the masked marauder known as the Gray Ghost is back—running the river and causing mischief... or is he?

It's not altogether clear whether or not someone from the old Red Runner gang, either Androfski the Silent or Jude the Fifth, is masquerading as the Fair and Square Club's old archenemy to hide from the law. Plus, there's a new boy in town named Simon Bleaker who seems just as rotten and wily as Stoner's Boy ever was. Will Seck and his friends be able to solve the mystery in time and bring peace back to the riverbank?

Before Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, Seckatary Hawkins and his friends were solving mysteries and thrilling readers with tales of adventure, loyalty, and courage. One of the biggest fans of the series was author Harper Lee, and she ends her masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird with a quote from The Gray Ghost. Now, the tales of the Fair and Square Club's encounters with the river renegade are back in print and ready to ignite the imaginations of devoted fans and new readers of all ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813167947
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	10/28/2016
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 - 12 Years

About the Author

Robert Schulkers (1890–1972) was born just two blocks from the Licking River in Covington, Kentucky. The banks of the Ohio and Kentucky Rivers and the limestone cave country of the Bluegrass became the playgrounds from which he would later draw inspiration for his many adventure stories, books, radio plays, and comics, produced from 1918 through the 1940s.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Map
1. A New Start
2. When the Ice Broke
3. A Note on the Door
4. Stoner's Boy Comes Back
5. The Telltale Footprints
6. The Shadow of the Gray Ghost
7. The Loud Voice
8. One Who Came in the Night
9. The Boy Who Vanished
10. Escape of Three-Finger Fred
11. The Secret Post Office
12. The Mysterious Code
13. Jude the Fifth
14. Jude Springs a Surprise
15. One Fox and Another
16. An Old Friend
17. The Deserted Dugout
18. A Cry in the Night
19. Link Returns
20. The Ugly Dog
21. A Note of Warning
22. The Challenge
23. The Strange Mix-Up
24. The Gray Ghost Escapes
25. Jude Retaliates
26. The End of the Ugly Dog
27. Simon Bleaker's Secret
28. The Black Cat
29. The Blue Flame
30. In the Tree Door
31. Hard Times for Simon Bleaker
32. The Plotters
33. Simon Keeps His Cave
34. Androfski's Miracle
35. A Rainy Night
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors

Editorial Reviews

Scholars, teachers, and general readers of To Kill a Mockingbird will find Stoner's Boy and The Gray Ghost of real interest. Reprinting Kentuckian Robert Schulker's two juvenile novels will give readers a new window into the iconic novel.

George Ella Lyon

Complete with illustrations and sporting new cover art, the hardbacks are beautiful reissues of a classic children's series.

Garden & Gun

"Scholars, teachers, and general readers of To Kill a Mockingbird will find Stoner's Boy and The Gray Ghost of real interest. Reprinting Kentuckian Robert Schulker's two juvenile novels will give readers a new window into the iconic novel." — George Ella Lyon, Kentucky poet laureate and author of Many-Storied House: Poems

"Complete with illustrations and sporting new cover art, the hardbacks are beautiful reissues of a classic children's series." — Garden & Gun

From the Publisher