The Wooden Shoe Mystery

By Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson

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Description: Patty Rose Saunders and her brother, Jack, travel with Gladys Baker to a nearby Dutch community for a festival. Due to no vacancies at any of the hotels, they stay with the Vandervort family. The Vandervorts have financial problems, and their daughter Katrina is trying to win a prize in the festival. The Vandervort family's problems increase when a man arrives claiming to be a distant relative. Carl Vandervort is extremely interested in the family's old wooden shoe and in the old family house which is on the Vandervort property. A treasure is said to be hidden in the old house, and the young people are convinced that Carl is after the treasure. The young people begin a search for the treasure and hope to find it before Carl succeeds. They realize that a coded message etched onto the wooden shoe holds a clue to the hidden treasure and work feverishly to decode it. Unfortunately, Katrina's father has decided to sell the old house, and the young people must work quickly in order to find the treasure.