Ice Ghosts Mystery Author:Jane Louise Curry After the strange disappearance of Doctor Bird while skiing in Austria, Mrs. Bird receives a cablegram from a friend of his alluding to "ice ghosts" and telling her to disregard the news of his death. Mrs. Bird and her three children fly to Austria to uncover the mystery of his disappearance. They find themselves not welcome at all in the little... more » Austrian valley where they search, a once booming tourist area plagued now with crop loss, strangely behaving animals, sickly children and nervous ailments. The villagers, eager to rid themselves of the "curse" that has befallen them, blame their misfortune on ancient legends of Ice Ghosts in the caves above their valley and several claim to have seen the phantoms. Did the ghosts spirit away Mr. Bird, or is a more real, and dangerous, villain to blame?« less