Circle of Fear — Alice Brennan

DANGER COMES TO TOWN

The town of Pierson was usually a quiet place, but not after Peter, Stan and Stevie John had been shot at in the woods. The whizz of that bullet seemed to serve as a signal for the mysterious events that piled up immediately afterward.

The was the case of the missing footprints, the stealing of a worthless magazine, and the disappearance of jars of canned berries. There was the mystery surrounding the boys' English teacher, the sudden influx of gangsters into the town -- not to mention the lies that were uttered by otherwise respectable people.

One thing the boys knew: never before had life been so exciting -- even to the point of almost making them forget to go fishing. But at times there was fear, too, because that was a natural reaction to extreme danger.