This time, I've been reading the "Five Find Outers and Dog". I've read almost all the novels in this 15 book series, except for the last 4 or 5 books... but I hope I will finish it this week!
One of my fav books in the series is the first one: "Mistery of the Burnt Cottage", because the children resolve the mystery by questioning witnesses and they have a list of subjects and clues, and because all the children participate actively in solving the mystery. In the last mysteries almost all the work is done by Fatty, with Bets noticing important clues, but the other three almost don't do anything. Some of the mysteries are more like adventures in the style of the "Famous Five", but my favorite books are those in which the children (or Fatty, most likely) find clues and suspects and get the right answer by deduction.
Of the parents, my favorite are Fatty's, although some people think that they don't give enough attention to his son. It's true that they spend a lot of time playing golf and bridge, but they stick by Fatty when the pompous policeman comes complaining.
It's true that the children don't seem to age (except for Fatty who breaks his voice by the fourth or fifth book, and Larry who grows up a bit) but on the other hand, it looks like all their adventures happened in a couple of years, in every holiday from school... that's four per year... so they start the series with 12 years old and ends when they're 16.
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