The Spring Song

✍ Scribed by Reid, Forrest

• Book ID: 109963605
• Publisher: Valancourt Books
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 122 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781939140227

✦ Synopsis

Thirteen-year-old Grif Weston and his siblings, Barbara, Ann, Jim,
Edward, and Edward's friend Palmer Dorset, travel to their grandfather's
home in rural Ireland, where they hope to pass an eventful summer.
Unexpected dangers and adventures lurk, as the children must solve the
kidnapping of their beloved dog Pouncer and thwart a burglary attempt on
Grandpapa's house. Yet there is another danger, far more sinister,
involving Billy Tremaine, a local boy who died at age fourteen in a
tragedy no one wants to talk about.

When Grif hears a mysterious figure singing an old tune called "The
Spring Song," old Mr. Bradley tells him that it's Billy's ghost, trying
to lure Grif into joining him in the world of the dead; shortly
afterwards Grif falls ill with an inexplicable sickness. But Palmer
Dorset, an avid reader of Sherlock Holmes tales, is determined to solve
these mysteries, and he'll risk every danger to find the truth behind
Mr. Bradley's ghastly stories and Grif's unexplainable illness. . . .

Forrest Reid (1875-1947) is unequaled among English-language writers in
his novels of boyhood and adolescence. In The Spring Song (1916), he
weaves a classic boys' adventure tale with a chilling ghost story in the
vein of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.