Cat with No Fiddle

by Mollie Chappell

The Taylor children had often pushed their faces through the wrought-iron railings of Hunt House and shivered as they gazed at its remote, dream-like exterior. ‘It isn’t real!’ Livvy would whisper. ‘Nothing seems to live here!’
Just how real and alive it and its inhabitants were, Livvy Sally and Richard found out!
Old Mrs Hunt was fabulously rich, and when her family, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, gathered to celebrate her 100th birthday things began to stir at the big house. Two ‘Hunts’ arriving to claim the same inheritance! Which was the impostor? And, most important clue in the mystery ‘the cat without a fiddle!’
Mollie Chappell, who has written many popular stories for teen-age girls, now gives us a thrilling adventure story which will appeal to both boys and girls. Suspense and excitement are here, and a mystery which keeps you guessing right to the end.
(Dustwrapper blurb from Children's Press undated edition)

My edition: Children's Press undated with illustrations, no longer with dustwrapper
Not known in a laminated edition

Advertised in a Seagull dustwrapper edition on the back of 'The Abbey Girls' by Elsie J Oxenham 1953 (and elsewhere)
Not known in a pictorial boards edition