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by William Stricklin (Author)
Our heroine in these two volumes which total 18 chapters, Mary Eliska Girl
Detective Girl Aviatrix, is a well-off young lady whose grandfather Albert
Stricklin is a newspaper publisher in Piedmont, California, who supports her
as a reporter for his paper The Piedmont Star, aware that she likes to dabble
in detective work. Flying in her airplane and driving her jalopy "Calamity Jane",
Mary Eliska joins with her three best friends: nieces Jacqueline Gray ("Jax")
and Marlow Ray, and nephew news photographer Liam McAdam to solve the
occasional case out of curiosity and sometimes to earn money separately
from her family. Mary Eliska Girl Detective Girl Aviatrix gives life to my
daughter born sixty years ago, March 10, 1963, whose life was cut short in
Clifton Springs New York September 12, 1963. She has charming manners,
oscillates between tomboyishness and a feminine ideal. She knows law and
manifests moral righteousness. Often she wears enviable dresses. Mary
Eliska's detective stories and unsolved mysteries I have re-written from the
public domain tales by Carolyn Keene (always a pseudonym), Anna Katharine
Green, Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson, Frances Crane, and anonymous
writers about Penny Parker, Mary Louise, Nancy Drew, and others. Please
enjoy reading all 18 chapters of "Mary Eliska Girl Aviatrix.
This is a book of about a girl and her marvelous accomplishments in
the air. Fictional Mary Eliska Girl Detective Girl Aviatrix is a heroine of
modern times. The book concentrates on the efforts of the girls and
women who, like their male counterparts, have obtained wonderful
results in the air. She wins an airplane by means of her remarkable air
feats, and keeps the reader tense with excitement from cover to cover.
