I am searching for a young adult mystery that was set in the Virgin Islands. The protagonist, a young woman, receives a message from her father on an alphabet shell. I think it was her father, who is a doctor, and who has been abandoned on an island.
Please help me. This book was a seminal influence on my desire to live on islands. I now live in Manhattan.
Try this: Secret of the Spotted Shell, by Phyllis A. Whitney.
Possibly Secret of the Spotted Shell, by Phyllis Whitney. Takes place in the Virgin Islands and has a young girl protagonist.
Thank you so much! This was exactly the book I was seeking!