Penny’s father is a newspaper owner being sued for libel in his home base of New York. He sends her on a western ski vacation in order to avoid the legalities, but she manages to gain entrance to a room with a mysterious Green Door, an entrance to an illegal fur importation racket from Canada. The culprits turn out to be those pursuing the libel situation back east. She is threatened with possible death, but not only solves the fur racket but winds up scooping a rival reporter. In addition, she gains friendship with a young girl kept in seclusion by a father battling ski facility entrepreneurs seeking control of a broad-ranging lease. They turn out to be the libel claimant villains from back east and wind up with enforced legal charges.
Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson (1905–2002) was an American journalist and writer of children’s books. She wrote some of the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries and created the detective’s adventurous personality. Benson wrote under the Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name, Carolyn Keene, from 1929 to 1947 and contributed to twenty-three of the first thirty Nancy Drew mysteries, which were bestsellers.
Narrator John Rayburn is a veteran of sixty-two years in broadcasting and is a member of the Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame. He made his first solo flight more than three-quarters of a century ago.