The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View; Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand

"The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View; Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand" by Laura Lee Hope is a tale of four young women named Betty, Grace, Mollie, and Amy, who find themselves at Ocean View for a summer filled with intrigue. Their journey begins as a casual summer getaway, but their discovery of an iron box buried in the sand soon changes everything. The girls, after initial cheerful chatter, meet a peculiar lobsterman named Old Tin-Back and stumble upon an iron box which stirs their imaginations. The possibility of pirates and the sighting of suspicious men on a motorboat quickly turns their summer into an exciting mystery.