Grosset & Dunlap.  Copyright 1962.  Print Run 1977.  Text was never revised.  176 pages.  Farah-coded 1977B-22.  Author using the Carolyn Keene pseudonym was Harriet Adams.

#39 in the series.  Cover artist Rudy Nappi.  Plain frontispiece and four internal illustrations.

Black/white multipictorial endpapers. Clean matte picture cover book, with no writing/markings. Very slight bumping and shelf wear. No hinge tracking, no looseness of boards or pages.  Has yellow bar over the title on the front cover, but this is NOT A FLASHLIGHT glossy-cover edition.

Lists to Strange Message in the Parchment on rear cover.

(39P)