The Yellow Phantom

I had to put this book down half way through when my Beverly Gray's Return book arrived. That's not to say this is a bad book, just that I love Beverly Gray books.

Judy is on holidays in New York in this book.

Is it a recurring theme that all of Judy's friends have lost relatives?

One of the interesting aspects of this story is that Judy is working for a book publisher and for a girl with no experience in the area she seems well qualified to criticise budding writers for poor scripts and rewrites poems for a famous writer. This technique makes you think the criticism is coming from the author herself and not from Judy.

This book has a romantic element to it not only for Irene but we can also see what leads Judy to choose Peter over Arthur.

The end of the story leads into the next book in the series and indicates to the reader that the next book is also going to be featuring Irene.

I must say this is one book from what I have read from the series so far where I have not had to question Judy as a heroine of the story. In this book Judy shows more warmth and respect towards her friends (in this case Irene) that I remember previously.

A good mystery though I found the end of the story took a fair amount of time to explain what had happened rather than the mystery unraverlling through natural discovery.