Petronella saves nearly everyone

By Dene Low

Subjects: Kidnapping, fiction, Mystery and detective stories, Parties, fiction, Birthdays, fiction, Uncles, London (england), fiction, Insects, Missing persons, Fiction, Children's fiction, Social life and customs, Juvenile fiction, Family, fiction, History

Description: In the spring of 1903 at her country estate, Petronella Arbuthnot faces an enormous dilemma during her sixteenth-birthday festivities as important guests disappear, kidnapping notes appear, and Uncle Augustus, who has developed a bug-eating compulsion, is surreptiously devouring the insect evidence.