Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville

by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

"Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville" by L. Frank Baum is a young adult novel published in 1908. When Uncle John Merrick acquires a remote farm in upstate New York through a defaulted loan, he whisks his three nieces away for a summer escape. The cousins soon become intrigued by mysterious disappearances involving the previous owner's family—a reclusive sea captain and his inventor son. As the girls play detective in their bucolic surroundings, they discover that small-town life holds more secrets than expected.