This book is a well-crafted piece of early detective fiction, set in the United States of America, originally written by Lawrence L. Lynch (pen name for Emma Murdoch) published in 1886 now in the public domain and re-written in 2021 for Mary Eliska Girl Detective by William A Stricklin. The original text is included as an appendix to the Mary Eliska rewritten version of the story. Vernet and Mary Eliska Girl Detective had been brother/sister detectives during the entire term of their professional career. Entering the Agency when mere striplings, the two had at once formed a friendship that had been strong and lasting. Their very differences of disposition and habits made them the better detectives together, and the role most difficult for one was sure to be found the easier part for the other to play. They had been a strong combination, and the Chief of the detectives wasted some time in pondering the question: what would be the result, when their skill and courage stood arrayed against each other? Among the challenges is for Mary Eliska Girl Detective is to recover a four-year old girl who was kidnapped at a masquerade by Mother Goose.

Other Books Written and Published © by William A. Stricklin Roses among the Thorns -- The Founders of the Bohemian Club – Nonfiction © 2020 1-8791258541 - ISBN 978-1-09831-738-6 The Saga of MTA Charlie -Fiction – Parody Lyrics - © 2014 PAu 3-733-895 Book Club - Nonfiction - © 2017 1-5999900821 They Try to Sell Us Egg Foo Young - Parody Lyrics- © 1-7262926821 - Fiction © 2018 - © 1-6288304641 © 2018 PAu 3-967-588 Family Secrets – Thursday's Child - Nonfiction - © 2017 1-5805231561 Aethelflaed's Secret – First Feminist of England – Nonfiction – © 2017 TXu 2-064-267 Catherine's Secret – The Banned Books of Queen Catherine Hidden at Strickland Manor Secret Library – 6th and Final Wife of King Henry VIII married July 1543 Catherine Parr (1512-1548) Outlived Henry- Nonfiction © 2017 1-5607493201 – TXu 2-060-893 King Eadgar's Secret - Oblate Expectations - Nonfiction - © 2017 Case 1-5600182531 Nun of My Dreams Fiction © 2018 TXu 2-093-545 ISBN 978-1-48098-155-3 Dollie's Secret – Survivor of the DeKalb, Texas, Indian Raid - Nonfiction – © 1-5564559089 © 2017 TXu 2-067-664 A Pregnant Nun a historical novel - Nonfiction – Copyright © Case 1-8558966897 © 2019 Pau 3-833-744 - ISBN 978-1-09830-437-9 Family Secrets Third Edition - Nonfiction - © 2021 TXu 2-283-186 ISBN 978-1-66780-864-2 A Hundred Secrets Volume 1 Books 1-20 nonfiction © Case 1-7072486931 © 2018 TXu 2-105-513 - ISBN 978-1-64530- 435-7 - & A Hundred Secrets Vol 2 Books 21-100 nonfiction 100 secrets © 1-6749127961 © 2018 TXu 2-105-513 - ISBN 978-1-64530-435-7 Why Weren't the Kurds at Normandy? Parody Lyrics Fiction © 2019 Pau 3-998-562 S'more Secrets - Sleepover Stories to be Told in Darkness Volume 1 Bedtime stories for kids Fiction ©2019 - TXu 2-129-150 - ISBN 978-1-64426-708-0 S'more Secrets - Sleepover Stories to be Told in Darkness Volume 2 for tweens and teens - Fiction -© 2018 1-7262889391 © 2018 TXu 2-129-150 - ISBN 798-1-64530-433-3 S'more Secrets - Sleepover Stories to be Told in Darkness Volume 3 scary stories to be told in darkness to grownups – Fiction - © 2018 TXu 2-189-150 - ISBN 798-1-64530-454-0 The Nurse's Secret - Kjellfrid's Secret - Nonfiction - ©2019 1-5985073311 © 2019 TXu 2-074-508 – Emily's Secret – Emily's Cargo Cult of 40 Mates in Irian Jaya - Nonfiction - © 1-5985016941 © 2019 TXu 2-074-514 Katie's Secret – The Arsenic Murder Trials of Katie Browder Stricklin - Nonfiction - © 1-5714428421 © 2019 TXu 2-065-209 Bad Breakup at 430 Lafayette Street - Nonfiction - Copyright © 2017 1-5592907361 - © 2017 TXu 2-060-686 Aesop Fables and The Candy Rabbit bedtime stories for kids - Fiction © 2019 - ISBN 978-1-54399-921-1 The Prince and I - Miss Olive - historic novel - Unsolved murder of my nanny's former charge © 2019 TXu 2-139-737 - ISBN 978-1-64530-432-6 Senatorial Courtesy – nonfiction life-saving senatorial courtesy Senator John William Warner III - Nonfiction - Copyright © 2020 1-837259272592781 ©2020 - ISBN 978-1-54399-891-7 Ladies Day – nonfiction account of misogyny at Harvard Law School professors during 1960s © 2020 ISBN 978-1-5499-920-4 A Perfect Crime a historical novel © 2020 - ISBN 978-1-09830-140-8 Four Score and More – nonfiction autobiography of a long life Case © 2019 TXu 2-167-560 - ISBN 978-1-54399-922-8 Easter Parade nonfiction COVID-19 © 2020 - ISBN 978-1-09830-945-9 Ambrose Bierce anthology of Ambrose Bierce's 70 best of 249 short stories © Case 1-8725184511 © 2020 - ISBN 978-1-09831-080-6 George Sterling A Wine of Wizardry anthology of George Sterling's 20 best poems 1-8731197451 © 2020 - ISBN 978-1-09831-102-5 The Boss – nonfiction my 18-months service to Vice President Richard M. Nixon Copyright © 2020 - ISBN 978-1-09830-750-9 Epilogue – nonfiction crimes of Richard M. Nixon and Presidential staff 1-8592617481 © 2020 - ISBN 978-1-54399-891-7 Mademoiselle Rouletabille Mary Eliska Girl Detective - Book 18 - The Murder on the Links - Fiction © 2021 Case 1-10920762761

About the Writer: Military Training and Service • Life Member of "Military Order of World Wars", • Bill received training initially at Ft. Lewis; basic infantry training, Ft. Benning, Georgia; followed by Fort Holabird, Counterintelligence Corps training for US Army service at Ft. McNair and in the Pentagon • Honorable Discharge two years active service (wartime); and four years US Army Reserve Professional License History • State Bar of California 036559 Active 1964-2021 • Hawai'i State Bar Association JD0962 Active 1970-2021 • Washington State Bar Attorney 10456 Active 1969-2021 • State of Washington General Contractor: Type I steel/concrete 1968-1970 Denny Building • State of Hawai'i "B" General Contractor CT6406: 2/16/1973-4/30/1996 Amfac Center HI • State of Hawai'i Real Estate Broker 1968-2015 • State of California Real Estate Broker: Commercial, Residential real estate sales and leasing 1958-1999 • Financial Consultant, Montecito Bank & Trust. Santa Barbara 1997-1998 Courts Admitted to Practice • Supreme Court of the United States 1964-2021 • United States Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit • United States Tax Court 1964-2021 • United States District Court for the Northern District of California 1964-2021 • United States District Court, District of Hawai'i • Supreme Court of State of California 1970-2021 • Supreme Court of Hawai'i 1970-2021 • Washington Supreme Court (Rule 18 reciprocity in 26 states) 1969-2021 Bar Affiliations, Activities and Memberships • Hawai'i Bar's Model Rules Committee, rules of lawyers' conduct • Hawai'i Bar's Government Lawyers Section • Hawai'i Bar's Litigation Section • Hawai'i Bar's Natural Resources Section • Founding Charter Member Washington State Bar Association Civil Rights Section. Active Member of Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF) 162968 • Environmental Law Section of BASF • Conference of Delegates Committee of the BASF • Ethics Committee of BASF • Member Race and Ethnicity Committee of BASF • Member of Disability Rights Committee of BASF Honors Philanthropic Affiliations and Awards • Order of Golden Bear to promote statewide unity of University of California campuses • Chair, University of California Alumni Association, Washington DC 1960-61 • Listed in National Trust for Historic Preservation Directory of Historic Preservation Lawyers • Chair, Hawai'i Advisory Committee, American Arbitration Assn 1975 to 1985 • Master Mason 3° Berkeley 363 Blue Lodge 1959 • Scottish Rite 32° Mason Oakland Temple 1959 • Hawai'i Shriners Temple 1968 • Hawai'i Shriners Hospital Clown Corps • Hawai'i Opera Theater Board of Trustees • Hawai'i Ballet Board of Trustees • National Board of Trustees, American Arbitration Assn, New York, 1990-1994 • Santa Barbara Board Trustees, Planned Giving Chair, American Red Cross 1998-2000 • Member Santa Barbara Board of Trustees, Catholic Charities, 1998-2000 • Member Santa Barbara Board of Trustees, Cottage Hospitals, 1998-2000 • Elected Member of Montecito Santa Barbara All Saints by the Sea Episcopal Church Board, 2000-2002 • Hawai'i's "Mediator of the Year" 1989 American Arbitration Association • Robinson Cox Visiting Fellow, Law School, University of WA (Perth) 1989 to 1990, teaching dispute resolution to the Law Society and students • Facilitated the Australian Minister of Land's return of land the size of Rhode Island called Silver Plains Station Queensland to the traditional owners, Lama Lama Peoples • Charter Member Founding Secretary, Hawai'i Lambda Alpha (Land Economics Honor Society) • Confrere Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to help serve medical needs of children of all faiths caught up in the wars of the Middle East