night lights
all through the night
mary higgins clark the queen of suspense celebrates the season with this christmas classic featuring two of her most beloved characters . br all through the night br all of alvirahs deductive powers and willys world class common sense are called upon as the two stumble into a christmas mystery . a woman abandons her newborn at a manhattan church . simultaneously a thief is absconding with a treasured artifact a chalice adorned with a star shaped diamond . to elude police he grabs the stroller and disappears . seven years later the mother returns to the scene and finds alvirah and willy helping neighborhood kids prepare for a christmas pageant at an after school shelter . soon the savvy sleuths set out to solve the puzzle of the missing child and chalice and to unmask scam artists threatening to shut down the shelter .
alvirah an amateur detective and her husband willy investigate when an after school shelter for neighborhood kids is prevented from moving into a neighboring building by a couple living there who claim to have inherited it