Hand on the Deck

Phoebe’s world was being turned upside down as she began her year in high school. There was the mystery of a severed human hand on the deck of the Aurora, and even her grandfather, Dr. Horace Balfour, and Dr. Beatrix Howell could not make sense of it. And then the actor William Powell, on a cross-country drive to Hollywood, had a quirky one-car accident just out of town. Trouble seemed to be following him. Sleeper, the town odd jobs man, was brutally murdered, and Phoebe felt a thickening cloud of fear settling around her.
Worst of all, both she had her mother, Harriet, had seen her grandfather and Dr. Howell, looking in the window of the jewelry shop. Were they growing closer, or was it Phoebe’s imagination getting the worst of her?