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As the specter of the Great War hangs over the country, a promising young student turns up dead When Kitty Weeks's latest assignment writing for the New York Sentinel Ladies' Page takes her to Westfield Hall, a well-regarded girls' school in New York City, she expects to find an orderly establishment teaching French and dancing�standard fare for schoolgirls in 1915. But there's much more going on at the school than initially meets the eye. Kitty especially takes note of the studies of Elspeth Bright, the daughter of a scientist heavily involved in naval technology, who has inherited her father's interest and talent for scientific inquiry. Elspeth's seemingly accidental death is a shock to the school community and to Kitty�and the more she finds out about Elspeth and her family, the more the intrepid reporter begins to believe that it may not have been an accident after all.