These were easy to separate from the occasional legitimate request for a book donation for an auction or other charitable fundraiser. Paragraph two quickly destroyed the illusion that someone had actually read this juvenile mystery first published back in 1985. The final line is “Are you ready to let your castle haunt the hearts of real readers?”Real readers? Gee—I thought all the kids, ages 8-12, who have read this book during the last forty years were pretty darned real. In 2023 she won the Lea Wait Award for “excellence and achievement” from the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.