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There is a fancy dress party on Saturday night, and on the following morning, one of the guests cannot be found. A full-scale search ensues. Jill, Ann Derry and Dinah Dean set their minds to discovering the whereabouts of the missing guest and who is responsible for her sinister disappearance. The third, narrated by Susan Barrington-Brown, who was originally a character in Josephine Pullein Thompson's novels. 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Norah Heyward, a young woman of her own age, has a new boyfriend who is deemed entirely unsuitable by her family and JIll is drawn into the drama as she struggles in an environment that is totally different to anything that she has experienced before. She attends a showjumping event at Bowral and then goes to visit her father in the Snowy Mountains. They go deep into the bush to hunt for an escaped mare who has joined the wild bush horses. 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