Artemus Flint Detective

by Beryl Goldsweig

35 short mystery stories.

Genres: Mystery

Paperback

First published September 1, 1978

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

This short novel is a collection of 35 very short mystery novels - 4 pages max per story. Detective Artemus Flint is given stories involving people and situations and must help others figure out what happened.

This book was an extremely fast read and easy to pick up and put down when I wanted a puzzle to figure out. Most of the cases were super easy to solve, but there were some that stumped me as well.

[Johnny · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has a collection of mysteries to be solved by Artemus Flint, a detective. He is given stories about people and situation of certain events. He determines who is lying, the suspect, or the culprit. Like in the First chapter was about Mrs. Derby and her alibi because someone had made an alarm go off. Police and fire fighters rushed to the scene but it was too foggy so the fire truck crashed into a lamp post and injured many people. Artemus Flint knew Mrs. Derby was lying because she said she was driving home from the beauty parlor, but how could she be driving when it was too foggy. Thus he suspected her of making the alarm go off.
Artemus Flint: Detective is a good book. It is easy to read because it is a series about different cases on peoples stories and Artemus Flint determines who is lying and give us the reason why he suspects them of lying or being guilty. It is a collection of different mystery cases so it is never boring because it is always on a different situation. However it is kind of odd, the reasons why he suspects the people of lying or being guilty. Like in one chapter about animals and a person will to leave behind $2500 to a person worthy of his will of $2500. Bunch of scientist came to get the money but some lied to gain the money with no interest of using the money for good. He accuses Mr.Tell about the breeding habits of female mules. Artemus Flint accuses him of lying because there is not such thing as a female mule because a mule is neuter (no sex organs). His reasons of solving mysteries are strange because you would have to know these science information a head of time. Overall it is just a fun book to read because it gets you involved and thinking about who is lying and the reasons why the person is guilty.

[M.H. Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read. I was able to guess most of the cases, but some were real stumpers!