The Thief at Keswick Inn: A Bailey Fish Adventure

Bailey Fish, 11, is happy when the Keswick family plans to move into a once-elegant country home near where she and her grandmother. Sugar, live in Virginia. The adopted, homeschooled brothers, Noah and Fred Keswick are about her age and fun. Bailey, and Justin Rudd, a neighborhood boy with a reputation of being a bully, are hired to help the Keswicks with cleaning and repairs before they open their home as a country inn. The kids excitedly discover valuable and historic items among the trash inside the old house. Then, one by one, these treasures disappear. Justin's unusual behavior makes him the main suspect as "detectives" Noah, Fred, and Bailey try to solve the mystery. Nonfiction elements include Native-Americans.

Linda Salisbury, a former journalist, is the author of the award-winning Bailey Fish Adventure series.