Racine, WI: Western Publishing Company, Inc., (1968.). A Whitman "Tween Age Book" - not too hard and not too easy for in-between readers. Illustrated by Cliff Schule. The first book in the Meg mystery series. In addition to writing the first six books of the Meg Duncan series, Bond wrote three of the books in the Trixie Belden series in the late 1970s (#17, 21 and 25.) As an indication of just how popular these books can be with girls, my daughter named her part-Siamese cat 'Thunder' after Meg's cat. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-307-21527x.