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That's the advice Jean Wainwright always gets from her beloved Aunt Constance, Jean's guardian and headmistress at the boarding school where she lives. It's advice that proves valuable when Jean finds herself spending the summer far from home, sorting out family papers for the reclusive Mr. Thiel, a trustee of Aunt Constance's school and the widower of her childhood friend Irene Callender.

At Mr. Thiel's isolated country estate, Jean is surrounded by bewildering questions from the past. Why is there such hatred between Mr. Thiel and his late wife's brother? Was her death an accident? And what happened to their child, who disappeared after Irene Thiel's death? Do the answers lie in the Callender papers? And will searching for the answers put Jean's own life in jeopardy?

《长青藤国际大奖小说书系：阁楼里的秘密》以推理小说的特别形式，讲述了一个关于秘密阁楼的爱与成长的故事。在一个世外桃源般的村庄里，有一座尘封十年的阁楼，里面放着十二箱神秘的家族文件。这一年的暑假，十二岁的城市女孩琼来到了这个陌生的村庄，开始整理这些文件。但她事前并不知道这一箱箱的文件之中，隐藏着卡兰德家族重大的秘密。在整理的过程中，她逐步陷入层层的谜团与疑云之中：一个神秘的鞋印、一名失踪的婴儿、一份庞大的遗产、一桩看似单纯的意外……为什么阁楼的主人席尔先生和他的小舅子卡兰德彼此仇视？席尔先生的妻子艾琳的死纯属意外吗？艾琳死后，她与席尔先生的孩子随之下落不明，那孩子究竟会有什么遭遇？谁才能继承卡兰德家族的庞大遗产？这些问题的答案都藏在卡兰德家族的文件中吗？在寻找答案与真相的同时，琼是否会面临生命危险呢？