Peggy Morrison was the youngest member of the Promettes, a group of girls employed by the Corporation of the seaside town of Whitesands. The Promettes’ job was to patrol the
promenades and beaches, giving help and advice to the summer visitors.
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Twins, Anne and Christine Timpson’s father thought his daughter’s were turning into spoilt young ladies, without the enterprise he had at their age. Therefore he had challenged the girls to complete twelve trials over the Easter holidays, while he was on a business trip. He had left twelve envelopes with Mrs Wiggs, the housekeeper to give to the girls.
Karen Lowe, a homeless London waif, was being cared for in the country home of Trevor Madison, a composer. She worked for her keep, doing housework and there were three guests in the house – Sylvia Stratton, a spoiled child star, who was to the dance the lead in Trevor’s new Baller “The Fairy Princess” , her wealthy mother who was financing the new ballet and the choreographer Jeff Stevens. One night Karen had an unusual instance of sleep dancing! The others in the home see her dance and are amazed at her natural talent but the Stratton’s see her a problem and demand Trevor get rid of her if he wants his ballet funded.
Jessica Jones, who in some strange way had walked back in history to the time of the seventeenth-century Civil Wars, was given shelter at Oakwood Manor by the Royalist owner, Sir Edwin Crawley. Sir Edwin’s cousin, Jasper Carver, accused Jessica of witchcraft and while the charge was being investigated, the fugitive King Charles II unexpectedly entered. As Jasper Carver was a Roundhead supporter, Sir Edwin had him imprisoned in a secret cell Until the King could escape. Jessica suggested to Sir Edwin that he should pretend that Charles had already escaped and should hold a ball in celebration. She hoped, by doing this, to draw off the Roundheads who were searching the manor for the King, and leave the way clear for Charles to escape to France.
Sally Brown worked as a ‘Jill of all Trades’ at the Hotel Metropole. Sally had some challenging situations but always managed to come out good in the end.
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Sarri U Win, a twelve-year-old Burmese girl, was Guardian of the Sacred Belt in Rangoon. But it was stolen, taken to England, and eventually made into five silver cups for Tasker’s School for Girls, Sarri became a pupil there, hoping to win the cups and have the valuable Belt refashioned. The cups were awarded for different challenges, sewing and embroidery, entertainment, dance, cookery and art. Sarri got off to a good start wining the sewing and embroidery trophy despite sabotage attempts by a jealous rival Rita Merrow.
Fourteen-year-old Sadie Winters had an English father and a French mother, and the family lived at the French village of Auterne. Sadie loved horses, and she worked as a groom at the White Chateau, a nearby finishing school which had pupils from all over the world. When the German armies invaded France during the Second World War, Sadie volunteered to lead five pupils on horseback to the port of St Malo, where they hoped to board a boat for England.
Mandy King and orphaned Sylvia Dunbar were staying-at Burnside Manor, the country house of Henry Mortimer, who was Sylvia’s grandfather and Mandy’s great-uncle. Somewhere in the house was hidden the only copy of a concerto written by Sylvia’s father. The girls were determined to find the valuable. manuscript, but so were: Miss Morgan, the housekeeper, and Chalmers, the chauffeur-handy man.
Beth Barlow helped her father run his circus. She was a problem solver and liked by all the employees. In one story when an elephant goes wild and his trainer is injured, Mr Barlow says the elephant most go. Krishna the trainer is upset by the news and said it was unlike his elephant to act out, and something must have happened. With some investigation Beth discovers that a boy staying with the circus had lost one of his pet mice and that is what scared the elephant so he is saved.
A humour strip about tough girl Susie.
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