Best Selling Books by Elsie Lee

Danica, the charming daughter of the well-known portrait painter Littleton Hughes, had half-forgotten that she had entered the Catlin Textile Design competition, so when she returns from her training in Paris, she is surprised to find that she has won the prize. A romantic attachment has made her wish to go to Hawaii, but Blaise Catlin, presenting her with her prize, tells her he wants her to return to Paris immediately. As Dany flies to Paris, she is convinced that another man on the plane is shadowing her, and she receives confirmation of this impression when she finds that her luggage has been changed for that of a stranger. The presence in Paris of her father, whom she believed to be in Canada, increases the mystery. Matters become even more serious when Dany is persuaded to go to a mysterious castle on the Rhine, but after a terrifying adventure she finally discovers where her duty, and her heart, are leading her. - Flyleaf. Danica may look like a wide-eyed art student, but her family background in art history and her knowledge of French uncovers a cache of World War II art and an art forgery scheme. - Virginia Allain.

Born into an Illinois farm family in 1906, Elsie Lee Splear describes how she, her parents, and her sisters lived in the early years of the twentieth century and how the changing seasons shaped their existence.

After the mysterious stranger sitting next to Danica Hughes on the flight to Paris disappears with the wrong briefcase, Danica examines the contents of his briefcase and sets in motion a chain of events that could prove fatal

After her husband''s sudden death, Nell Valentim takes her stepson to Portugal to see his family''s ancestral home, but discovers there are those violently opposed to her claiming her inheritance