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FROM: Danielle Pilon <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 3:37 PM

Hi all. I've used your booklists many times but
haven't posted to the list until now.

A patron is trying to remember the title of a book she
read long ago (see description below). I've searched
the net & the Fiction-L archives but found nothing
remotely similar.

> I've been trying to remember a book that I read as a
> child and all I can remember about it is that there
> was a doll involved and a young girl finds some
> diamonds in its head. A well may also be involved. I
> think it was horror/suspense but I can't say for
sure.

Any leads much appreciated.

Danielle Pilon, MLIS
Assistant Librarian
Selkirk & St. Andrews Regional Library
Selkirk, Manitoba


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FROM: "Franz, Patty" <[removed]@pamunkeylibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 3:48 PM

Danielle -

I think that this is Ginny and the Mystery Doll by Catherine Wooley.
I really loved this book as a child. OCLC says it was published in 1960.
Hope this helps,

Patty Franz
Supervising Librarian
Pamunkey Regional Library
P. O. Box 119
Hanover, VA 23069

[removed]@pamunkeylibrary.org
www.pamunkeylibrary.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Danielle Pilon [[removed]@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:23 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Book search: diamonds in a doll's head


Hi all. I've used your booklists many times but
haven't posted to the list until now.

A patron is trying to remember the title of a book she
read long ago (see description below). I've searched
the net & the Fiction-L archives but found nothing
remotely similar.

> I've been trying to remember a book that I read as a
> child and all I can remember about it is that there
> was a doll involved and a young girl finds some
> diamonds in its head. A well may also be involved. I
> think it was horror/suspense but I can't say for
sure.

Any leads much appreciated.

Danielle Pilon, MLIS
Assistant Librarian
Selkirk & St. Andrews Regional Library
Selkirk, Manitoba


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FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <[removed]@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 4:08 PM

I thought it was, too, and just looked at the book; however, there were no diamonds in the head of the doll but there was a pearl around the neck that was missing and found at the end of the book.

Robin Beerbower
Salem Public Library

>>> [removed]@pamunkeylibrary.org 02/28 1:41 PM >>>
Danielle -

I think that this is Ginny and the Mystery Doll by Catherine Wooley.
I really loved this book as a child. OCLC says it was published in 1960.
Hope this helps,

Patty Franz
Supervising Librarian
Pamunkey Regional Library
P. O. Box 119
Hanover, VA 23069

[removed]@pamunkeylibrary.org
www.pamunkeylibrary.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Danielle Pilon [[removed]@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:23 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Book search: diamonds in a doll's head


Hi all. I've used your booklists many times but
haven't posted to the list until now.

A patron is trying to remember the title of a book she
read long ago (see description below). I've searched
the net & the Fiction-L archives but found nothing
remotely similar.

> I've been trying to remember a book that I read as a
> child and all I can remember about it is that there
> was a doll involved and a young girl finds some
> diamonds in its head. A well may also be involved. I
> think it was horror/suspense but I can't say for
sure.

Any leads much appreciated.

Danielle Pilon, MLIS
Assistant Librarian
Selkirk & St. Andrews Regional Library
Selkirk, Manitoba


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FROM: "Kelly Benson" <[removed]@htls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 4:08 PM

>
> > I've been trying to remember a book that I read as a
> > child and all I can remember about it is that there
> > was a doll involved and a young girl finds some
> > diamonds in its head. A well may also be involved. I
> > think it was horror/suspense but I can't say for
> sure.


Well, I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but when I
was a child, I remember reading the Ginnie and Geneva books. Internet search
turns up the author as Catherine Woolley and a search of our system's
catalog gives me a title that I believe is the one I'm thinking of "Ginnie
and the Mystery Doll," with a pub date of 1960 [which would be fine since I
lived on used books when I was a kid]. I don't remember all the specifics
and we don't have that book at my library, but there was an antique doll at
an auction that was supposed to have a priceless jewel attached to it
somehow. There's lots of "suspense" with the doll and all and eventually
Ginnie actually finds the jewel in a jar full of buttons that she purchased
at the auction.
That series is kinda funny because there's a whole set of suspenseful
mystery kinds of stories, like this one and some more where they've gone to
Europe alongside more domestic "girl" fiction where Ginnie is entering
cooking contests and running a babysitting service out of her attic.
But like I said, it may not be what you're searching for as there are no
diamonds in the doll's head.


Kelly Benson
Adult Services Librarian
Three Rivers Public Library District
Channahon-Minooka, Illinois

FROM: Pamela Kource <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 2/28/02, 4:39 PM

I think this is Elizabeth Honness' Mystery at the Doll Hospital. The plot
includes a brother and sister and the resolution involves a doll whose
eyes have been replaced, they discover at the end, by two sapphires. The
book was published in 1955 and was still in my local library in the late
60's early 70's.

Pamela Kource
Manager
Cliffdale Regional Library
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center

6882 Cliffdale Rd
Fayetteville, NC 28314

(910) 864-3800
(910) 487-9090 (fax)

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Kelly Benson wrote:


I've been trying to remember a book that I read as a
child and all I can remember about it is that there
was a doll involved and a young girl finds some
diamonds in its head. A well may also be involved. I
think it was horror/suspense but I can't say for
sure.

FROM: Danielle Pilon <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/5/02, 10:06 AM

Thanks for all your suggestions, I've passed them on
to the patron. She's very interested in reading the
Ginny book, even if it's not the specific title she
was thinking of.

Danielle Pilon, MLIS
Assistant Librarian
Selkirk & St. Andrews Regional Library


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