What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

This is an old one. Read it in the late '70s. About a girl who was trying to find a missing necklace, maybe emerald. It was originally hidden in a stone lion in the front of someone's house (her aunt's?) but the stone lion has disappeared. The girl has an older, beautiful cousin names Carrisa or Clarice. I think there's swimming in a swimming hole.

Is it part of a series? Could it be The Mystery of the Emeralds

Tess, no, not a Trixie Belden, although I read all of those. This one was written, maybe in the 60's and was not a part of a series. Thanks though!

Here's more: they like to sit and play in a group of rocks that are naturally shaped like chairs. If I remember right, the stone that is used as a footstool is actually the stone lion.

I thought maybe a Phyllis A. Whitney mystery for kids, but her list of books doesn't match up. This might drive me crazy. Anyone? Anyone?

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I'm assuming you checked out all the (thousands and thousands it seems) mysteries of Enid Blyton?

This seems almost too easy, but The Missing Emerald Necklace?

Thank you Ann and Andria. I think that it is not by Enid Blyton. Do not recall there being anything English about this book (locations, names, spellings). I think that it was not The Missing Emerald Necklace. The cover looks wrong. Thank you for trying.

Haha, I had a feeling that one was just too obvious to be right! Ok, here's a long shot, but it's all I've found so far: The Secret of Peach Orchard Plantation. Don't know about the stone lion or the sister, but there's a lost emerald necklace, and maybe the Georgia plantation setting rings a bell?

Andria I read a synopsis of The Secret of Peach Plantation. I don't think that's the one. That books has an emerald necklace found in a trunk. The book I read, if I remember correctly, has it found in the stone lion. It's partly burried and is the footstool of these natural furniture rocks that the kids play on. It sounds strange, but I think that someone out there must have read this book and recognize it? I checked it out from the library in about 1978. I think it was written well before then, in the 50's or 60's.

Here's a few other things I remember: the kids swim in a swimming hole. At one point the MC thinks she's found the stone lion in the swimming hole, but when they unearthed it, it was just a rock. Also the MC is very anxious to find the necklace because of some financial reason, like to help the aunt/grandmother or to help the older cousin Clarrisa/Clarice.
Thanks!

Hang in there! Someone will recognize it, eventually. My searches have turned up nothing, except that there are a surprising number of books that feature missing emerald necklaces! None that match your description, though, at least not that I could find. Good luck!

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Stacy, are you still looking for this book?

Google Books search
necklace "missing stone lion"

The Publishers' Trade List Annual - Volume 2 - Page 36
1971 - ‎Snippet view -
A missing stone lion, a sprawling old house, and an almost undecipherable diary are the ingredients of this suspenseful story. ... of Natural History, Nancy Frost becomes deeply involved in a suspenseful search for a valuable topaz necklace.

Look at the image of the snippet to get the title and author.

MYSTERY AT LIONS GATE
by Marjory Hall.

Google Books for summary.
Funk & Wagnalls, 1967
A young girl, staying with her grandmother for the first time, learns the old legend about the estate which tells of a missing lion gatepost and buried treasure, and decides she must find the treasure.

Cover image is a library rebound but the dust jacket would look similar.


Copies, check bookfinder.com or addall.com then individual sites.

Cover withi dust jacket.


Without a doubt, must be solved now. :)

Stacy, is this your book? I remember reading this when I was ten or eleven!

I sent off a PM to Stacy, so hopefully we'll know something soon.

Thank you thank you thank you Kate! As you can see I've been looking for this for a while. Will move to "Solved".

Or maybe thanks to bookel...

Definitely bookel