I believe my problem was probably related to the fact that this book invites its audience to help solve the mystery. I was drawn to the cover, but perplexed by the content, and even after I purchased the book and brought it home, I could never get into it enough to sit down and finish it. I distinctly remember buying this book in paperback at Barnes and Noble on a family shopping trip to New Jersey sometime in the early 1990s. Carillon - with the help of an old friend and an adopted set of twins - persists in her pursuit of Leon and the meaning of the "glub blubs." Carillon only hears part of what he has to say the rest is lost to the "glub blub" of the sea. As he struggles to keep his head above water, Leon makes just one parting remark, before he mysteriously disappears. When the couple are finally of age to live as husband and wife, they are out in a boat together when a storm hits. Carillon is married off to a young man named Leon Carillon when she is just a child. The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel) is a bizarre 1971 middle grade mystery by The Westing Game author Ellen Raskin.
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