The Name on the Bracelet

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1940. first. Hardcover. Good/good. Pelagie Doane. First edition. Good book in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has tears and chips, and a scuff on the front; now in new removable protective cover. Green boards with red print on front and spine. Pink illustrative end papers. Frontispiece on plain paper. Pages clean and unmarked, old book smell. Grosset and Dunlap hard cover with dust jacket, first edition 1940, 216 pages, cover art and illustrations by Pelagie Doane. 8vo (5.25"" x 7.5"") The Name on the Bracelet, Judy Bolton #13, by Margaret Sutton. Although edition / printing not stated, Judy Bolton titles on front flap run thru this title. Nancy Drew titles on rear flap run thru The Clue of the Tapping Heels, published 1939. The Melody Lane titles on the dust jacket rear run thru The Secret of the Kashmir Shawl, published 1939. Plot: Irene Lang, now Mrs. Dale Meredith, has given birth to Judy Irene Meredith in New York City. At Dale's request, Judy Bolton travels to the city to act as a nursemaid and to help the Merediths find a good nursemaid. Irene shares a room at the hospital with Jane Merrit, who also has a new baby girl. In the confusion of checking out of the hospital, the babies somehow become switched without anybody noticing. It is when Judy feeds little Judy that she notices the wrong name on the baby's armband. Horrified, Judy tells Dale who insists that Irene not be told. Judy and Dale begin a frantic search for Jane Merrit and her baby.