The Person in the Potting Shed

by Barbara Corcoran

While vacationing with their mother and new stepfather in a semi-deserted plantation house outside New Orleans, a boy and a girl discover a murder and help track down the murderer. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689307748
• ISBN13: 9780689307744
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful children's mystery with depth and creativity

I have loved this book since I was a child. A family moves to a New Orleans plantation and is virtually secluded. The plantation is old, ricketey and full of mystery. The children are trying to figure out a curious set of problems that eventually turn into the pieces of a murder plot. Like any good book, some parts will make your heart race, especially because the main characters (a brother and sister) are pre-teen age. The children are soon in danger because of what they know, and as the reader you are taken with them as they figure out how to expose the evil while saving themselves. This is not a teeny bopper book, it is a well written, creativity inspiring, nailbiting who-done-it with thought provoking characters and a plot that keeps you guessing. I read it over and over as a kid and plan on reading it to my children, too. It has been at least 15 years since I last read the book but I would love to get my hands on it and read it again. Highly recommended by me: a mom, former teacher, and kid at heart!