Robin Hudson is now executive producer of Special Reports and she is feeling relatively settled，if bored．She has taken on wide-eyed small town girl，Kathy Loblaws as an intern and invited her to a Giris Night Out--a semi-regular frenzy of female bonding meant to alleviate Robin’s girlfriends’love crises and her own ennui．It's Halloween and Kathy doesn’t show but telephones from a strange man’s closet．Aided by her pals，Robin must track down her errant charge through one Iong night of murder and mayhem，costumes and concealed weapons,men who are(strangely enough)not what they seem and deja vu as Robin slowly realises that her search is really a deadly trip into the past，fuelled by an old curse．

Readers of NANCY DREW need no assurance thatthe adventures of resourceful Louise Dana and herirrepressible sister Jean are packed with thrills，excitement，and mystery．Every girl will love these fasci—nating stories which tell how the DANA GIRLS，like Nancy Drew herself,meet and match the challenge ofeach strange new mystery．——From the inside flap of By the Light of the Study Lamp，a Dana Girls mystery by Carolyn Keene，Copyright 1938，Grosset＆Dunlap，Inc．