Penny Parker Mystery Stories

Penny's father is a newspaper owner being sued for libel in his home base of New York. He sends her on a western ski vacation in order to avoid the legalities, but she manages to gain entrance to a room with a mysterious Green Door, an entrance to an illegal fur importation racket from Canada. The culprits turn out to be those pursuing the libel situation back east. She is threatened with possible death, but not only solves the fur racket but winds up scooping a rival reporter. In addition, she gains friendship with a young girl kept in seclusion by a father battling ski facility entrepreneurs seeking control of a broad-ranging lease. They turn out to be the libel claimant villains from back east and wind up with enforced legal charges.

Penny Parker's father is a car accident victim and is taken to a hospital by another driver. However, they never arrive and the widowed father, Anthony Parker, is struck by brain damage with memory loss. At one point he cannot remember his own name nor recognize Penny as his daughter. He is owner/publisher of The Riverview Star newspaper and is pursuing information concerning a car-theft gang. Fortunately, the time element is overcome for his recovery and this leads to thwarting the plans of the unscrupulous gang. This is one of seventeen feature novels about the Penny Parker mysteries, so be on the lookout for more of the outstanding adventures.