Elly has always had a strange feeling about the old house - and then she hears about the macabre discoverey in one of the bedrooms. The skeleton of a girl, dressed in red velvet, was found shut away in an old chest. Then strange things start happening - Elly hears ghostly singing, sees people in the woods dressed in old-fashioned clothes, and hears threatening voices in the house. She decides to solve the ancient mystery, but in digging up the ancient past she uncovers secrets about her own family history which will have a lasting effect on her whole future.

 

There are 156 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Oxford University Press .

Carol Hedges is an A level tutor, and in her spare time works as a dinner lady at her local primary school. She lives in Hertfordshire.