The Case of the snowbound spy

McGurk Mystery #9

by E.W. Hildick

Hildick, E. W.

Genres: Mystery, Childrens, Juvenile, Fiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

E.W. (Edmund Wallace) Hildick was a British children's book author. He was born in Bradford, England in 1925. After two years service in the Royal Air Force he became a secondary school teacher, then a writer, later moving to the United States to become editor of a literary magazine. He died in London in 2001.

Reviews

[MisterFweem · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lucky find at the thrift store, this.

I've loved McGurk mysteries since I was a kid. Even reading them now, the characterizations, the dialogue, the stories, just hold so true to that age. I hope one of these days to encourage my own kids to love these books as much as I do. But they're a stubborn lot.

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

The members of the McQurk Organization agree to accept a client who is restricted by a broken leg, and deliver messages for him. They soon discover they are unwitting accomplices in high level espionage. Now it's up to the young sleuths to bring down the culprits.

[Karin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read these to my son when he was a boy. Now i'm reading the series to my daughter and she loves them too.

This one is my favorite still. McGurk and his friends have to solve some puzzling codes in order to help a former spy. Then the 5 sleuths suspect something fishy is going on and spy on the spies.

Most of the mysteries are about small home-town kinds of mysteries- which animal is eating the birds? Who is putting stuff in that tree? Why are the garbage cans being overthrown?

McGurk may not be as smart as Encyclopedia Brown but the stories are well-written and fun to read.

[Jessi · Rating 3 out of 5]

McGurk and the gang are up to it again. A coded note leads them to a new client. One who's a former spy who is laid up by a broken leg and needs the kids to do his leg work (get it?) But is he all he seems?