The Specter

Joan Lowery Nixon

Dell Publishing Company, 1993 - Juvenile Fiction - 184 pages

Seventeen-year-old Dina is fighting cancer and is&   &   angry at the whole world. But when Julie, a&   &   nine-year-old survivor of a car accident, becomes Dina's&   &   roommate at the hospital, there's no time for Dina&   &   to keep on being angry. Because Julie is&   &   frightened. Desperately frightened. She's sure that someone&   &   caused the accident she was in--someone who will&   &   retum to kill her. Now she's insisting on being&   &   with Dina all the time. But by befriending Julie, is&   &   Dina making herself the target of a dangerous&   &   killer?

Contents

• Section 1: 15
• Section 2: 34
• Section 3: 49
• Section 4: 61
• Section 5: 75
• Section 6: 86
• Section 7: 98
• Section 8: 113
• Section 9: 132
• Section 10: 146
• Section 11: 161

About the author

Joan Lowery Nixon was born in Los Angeles, California. She attended the University of Southern California where she received a B.A. in journalism and later an education certificate from California State. She has written over 100 mystery books for young adults. She is known for her Orphan Train Adventure Series and other titles including A Family Apart, The Seance and Other Side of the Dark. Her works have earned her the honor of being the only writer to win four Edgar Allen Poe awards and in addition, two Spurs from Western Writers of America. She was a past President of the Mystery Writers of America. She died from complications of pancreatic cancer on June 28, 2003, in Houston, Texas. She was 76.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Specter; Laurel-leaf books; St. Antony's MacMillan Series
• Author: Joan Lowery Nixon
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company, 1993
• ISBN: 0440977401, 9780440977407
• Length: 184 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Boys & Men; Juvenile Fiction / Ghost Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories