Susan C. (SusanofGreenGables) reviewed The Black Jacket Mystery (Trixie Belden, Bk 8) on + 618 more book reviews
There was a small branch lying at one side. It was only about twenty inches long, and someone had cut all the side twigs off it. Trixie picked it up, curious as usual. It came from a crab-apple tree. There was a dark stain on the heavy end of the piece of wood. And caught in the grain of the wood was a small tuft of gray hair. The stain could only be blood...