Order of Penny Parker Books
Penny Parker is the protagonist in a series of children’s mystery novels by American author Mildred A. Wirt. Penny Parker is an amateur sleuth, high school student and newspaper reporter for her father’s newspaper. After her mother died when she was young, she was raised by the family housekeeper, Mrs. Weems. Mildred A. Wirt was quoted as saying, “I always thought Penny Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy is.”
Mildred A. Wirt began her Penny Parker series in 1939 with the novel Tale of the Witch Doll. The series lasted 17 novels, concluding in 1947 with the novel The Cry at Midnight. There is one additional novel that was never finished. Below is a list of Mildred A. Wirt’s Penny Parker books in order of when they were first published (which is the same as their chronological order):
Publication Order of Penny Parker Mystery Stories Books
| Tale of the Witch Doll | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Vanishing Houseboat | (1939) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Danger At The Drawbridge | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Behind the Green Door | (1940) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Clue of the Silken Ladder | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Secret Pact | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Clock Strikes Thirteen | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Wishing Well | (1942) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Saboteurs on the River | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Ghost Beyond The Gate | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hoofbeats on the Turnpike | (1944) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Voice from the Cave | (1944) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Guilt of the Brass Thieves | (1945) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Signal in the Dark | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Whispering Walls | (1946) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Swamp Island | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Cry At Midnight | (1947) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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Penny Parker Synopsis: In Clue of the Silken Ladder by Mildred A. Wirt (book 5), Penny Parker finds a silken ladder and questions its purpose. And does the recent string of burglaries have anything to do with a group of mediums?
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