Augusta Huiell Seaman was a very prolific author, who wrote 39 books between 1911 and 1949. Her books were very popular for many years after she wrote them, and were reprinted over and over again- but now most of them have become hard to find. The Boarded-Up House was her 4th book, and her first mystery for girls. It remains one of her most loved and sought after books. There is a wonderful blending of both a historical mystery and a contemporary one (contemporary, that is, to 1915). At the time Seaman began writing her mysteries, no one else had written suspenseful stories for older girls and boys - and for 90 years now, once Seaman's books are discovered, they are loved.