God only knows who actually wrote this book -- it's credited to "Chester K. Steele," but that's a pseudonym that the Stratemeyer Syndicate used for this series. That doesn't sound like an overwhelming introduction, and it isn't -- but you know, we think there's something here -- we like this book, or we wouldn't be reissuing it most of a hundred years later. I mean, come on -- don't you want to know what lies inside the Mansion of Mystery? We sure did. And we found out. And we aren't telling.

Author Biography

Chester K. Steele was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for a series of mystery books. These were aimed at an older audience than most of the other syndicate books. The first title, The Mansion of Mystery, was written by Edward Stratemeyer and the rest were ghostwritten.