THE CASE OF THE INVISIBLE DOG

McGurk Mystery #5

by E.W. Hildick

The McGurk Organization's four young detectives match wits with a nine-year-old scientific genius to unravel the mystery of the "invisible dog."

Genres: Mystery, Fiction, Childrens

Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

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

[Chris Browning · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s still jarring for me to read the American version of a McGurk book, although now I can absolutely see how Hildick would have rewritten elements for both audiences and what a clever trick that was for him to pull off. As ever, it’s less of a mystery than I remembered them being, but is fun in a sort of introduction to impossible crime in the style of John Dickson Carr. The solutions are simple and neat but probably pretty eye popping for a young reader, and the general lesson of the book - you may be a smart arse but we absolutely respect your ability to pull off being a smart arse, so please join our club so you can be our very own smart arse - is incredibly heartwarming

[Brandon Minster · Rating 2 out of 5]

My review.