Alfred Hitchcock presents nine short stories that are sure to make young readers shiver (while they get a good dose of some fine writing!).Introduction • essay by Alfred HitchcockThe Mystery of Rabbit Run • (1946) • Jack BechdoltJimmy Takes Vanishin
In an interesting turnabout, the Revolutionary War is seen through the eyes of a British family to whom an American prisoner of war has been entrusted. Technically the young prisoner is in Uncle Lawrence's custody, but the children soon forge a forbidden
British airman Dym Ingleford is convinced that the young German prisoner, Max Eckermann, is his brother Anthony who was kidnapped years before. Raised in the Nazi ideology, Tony has by chance tumbled