Kay Paxton’s father crash-landed in Russia and was imprisoned for seven years. He has now returned, but Colonel McLintock of the British Secret Service has warned Kay that the man may be an imposter and Russian spy. She is to keep an eye on him and report anything unusual. Kay’s spying has her not knowing one way or the other about the man claiming to be her father.
When Reyna Reynolds moves into the empty house next door to Jan Crawford, strange things start happening. The strangest of them all is that Reyna casts no shadow. Jan decides to pretend to be friends with Reyna in order to unravel her secret, although Reyna causes a lot of trouble for Jan.
After her father’s death in what everyone thought was a hit-and-run accident while he was guarding the sheep against rustlers, Helga Whitleaf ran their farm with her Aunt Jessie. Her German Shepherd dog, Wolf, attacked Charlie Norman, a wealthy neighbouring farmer, and Helga began to suspect that the man had had a hand in her father’s death. While searching for proof at the Norman farm, she was seen leaving. Next morning, the village heard that the rustlers had struck again, and that a lamb had been found savaged to death. The villagers thought Wolf had done it.
Brand of the Wolf – Judy: #1226 (09 July 1983) – #1236 (17 September 1983)
A peaceful loch-side had been horrifically interrupted when mysterious killers staged an “accident”, from which the only survivors were a girl who had lost her memory and the dog she relied on to protect her. Now the girl and her dog were walking down a shadowy street in a northern city.
One Girl and her Dog – Judy: #1217 (07 May 1983) – #1225 (02 July 1983)
When Denise Pender went to Blair School, she expected to find her cousin, Kathy Longren, head prefect there. To Denise’s puzzlement, everyone denied all knowledge of Kathy. However, some clever detective work by Denise led her to a small room where Kathy found her cousin. As they came face to face, Denise gasped in horror, as Kathy’s face was covered in hair!
Reprinted – Judy: #1217 (07 May 1983) – #1224 (25 June 1983)
In 1847 a young girl runs away and slips and hits her head. She wakes up with no memory, in a grand house, where a woman claims she is her daughter, Lady Caroline. But flashes of a memory and a conversation she overhears makes her think she was told a lie so she goes on a hunt to find out who she is.
“Who Am I?” – Judy: #1587 (09 June 1990) – #1596 (11 August 1990)
Jill and Claire Cameron had been invited to London by their older cousin, Miriam Hill, to watch a royal wedding. The girls booked into a hotel, but the next morning, Miriam had vanished. Not only had Miriam disappeared, but so had her room — Room 13.
Jenny found herself wandering the streets of Victorian London suffering from complete loss of memory. A poem in her own handwriting was the only clue Jenny had to her identity. With Doris, a girl who had helped her, Jenny was trying to find her way home.
Sara Briggs goes to Offshore Island, a school for children from broken homes. It is run by the sinister Miss Macey and Mr Briggs is giving Miss Macey the money for it. But Sara is getting suspicious as the pupils behave very strangely. They march like puppets and emerge from accidents without a flinch or hint of pain. Then Sara discovers that Miss Macey has a very strange treatment for her pupils and has a “great plan”.
Joe and Bertha Castin, caretakers of Kenwood Hall, take Evvy Collins from a fairground and start training her up to impersonate Lady Evelyn, who mysteriously disappeared seven years ago at the age of five, so they can claim the Kenwood fortune. But the deception is not going well, and things get even more tangled when Evvy begins to find clues as to her real identity.
