Mandie and her friends have a new mystery to investigate when the bells of the church suddenly begin ringing at midnight.

After Mandie and Celia hear suspicious noises coming from an alley on their way back to schol one night, and thinking that it is somehow connected to a missing heirloom, Mandie decides to investigate.

In 1901 when she visits her friend Joe and his family in the mountains of North Carolina, thirteen-year-old Mandie insists on finding out who might be using the supposedly deserted log cabin where she and her father had lived before he died.

"Mandie and her friends are off searching for an illusive treasure hidden somewhere in the past. Names from the all-but-forgotten local history and threats from an angry man make this a challenge you won't want to miss."--Back cover.

A collection of tales featuring Mandie, an orphan, and her friends as they solve mysteries together in turn-of-the-century North Carolina.

Surprised to find a cat in the woods near her home, nine-year-old Mandie realizes that it had been purposely abandoned, thus after making the stray her family pet, Mandie becomes determined to figure out who did such a thing and why.

Travel with Mandie, her friends, and her grandmother through Europe. Mystery and adventure await them at every stop, including a burglary at the Catacombs in Rome in, and an ancient juniper tree that is said to mysteriously jump at a castle in Germany.