The Thief at Keswick Inn — Linda Salisbury

The Thief at Kewsick Inn, book three in the award-winning Bailey Fish Adventure Series, received the gold President's Pick Award from the Florida Publishers Association in 2007. Bailey Fish, 11, is happy when the Keswick family plans to move into a once-elegant country home near where she and her grandmother, Sugar, live at Lake Anna. The adopted, homeschooled brothers, Noah and Fred, are about Bailey's age and fun to be with. Bailey and Justin Rudd, a neighborhood boy with a reputation of being a bully, are hired to help the Keswicks with cleaning and repairs. The kids are excited to discover valuable and historic items among the trash inside the old house. Then, one by one, these treasures disappear. Justin's unusual behavior makes him the main suspect as detectives Noah, Fred, and Bailey try to solve the mystery.