The Pompey Hollow Book Club

Life growing up in the shadows of WWII. Kids born in the '40s grew up fast. They had to. By the time they were five more than 70 million people were killed in the largest world war in the history of man.

Mary Crane, decides to follow her teacher's suggestion of getting a pen pal for the summer. She writes to a boy her mother had read about in the newspaper - a Pennsylvania lad. He writes back. As the summer unfolds, one of the teens is witness to a crime in progress. Innocently, not only does the young pen pal of the club's president unwittingly help them solve the mystery of just who the crooks are, but they also solve what turns out to be an unresolved military mystery dating back to the war and still lingering in the shadows of the D-day invasion.