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The Mysterious Case Case
Boy detectives Fenton and Gerald and their rival Mae Donna find their sleuthing talents severely tested when they tangle with a bank robber.
- GenresMystery
64 pages, Paperback
First published October 7, 1985
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April 3, 2020
This was a delightful read! I am anxious to see what my grandchildren think of it. I got onto this author because I picked up a couple of her juvenile books at a local library sale. It is very difficult to discover much information about her online. She supposedly lives in Texas and has authored at least 100 books. This is part of her Determined Detectives series and I will definitely be on the lookout for more of her books!
April 25, 2021
My brother recently purged some books from his collection, and one of them was this obscure chapter book from the 1980s, which we believe we got hand-me-down from a neighbor who worked as a school janitor. The cover looked weird, but I decided to give this a try, just because it's a mystery.
IT'S HILARIOUS. It made me laugh out loud multiple times, and it had me at hello, when a girl doing a magic show at school pulled a stuffed panda out of a hat. That was NOT a common stuffed animal in 1985, and since my beloved stuffed panda is from the same year, I would like to imagine that this was one of his cousins. This subjective aspect of my experience hooked me on the book, but it got even better from there.
The first-person narrative voice is hilarious, and the book is full of vivid, funny details, like the boy's mother being obsessed with magazine quizzes to determine whether or not they have achieved sufficient Family Togetherness. There is also an amusing rivalry with the girl who did the magic tricks at the beginning, and a hilarious misunderstanding as she tries to convince the main character and his sidekick that her dad is a detective. The mystery also comes to a satisfying resolution, with laugh-out-loud lines during the climax and police confrontation.
There are different 1980s details throughout, such as mentions of a Walkman, but the book isn't overly dated. I would recommend this to kids and adults who enjoy humorous chapter books, mystery stories, and determined child sleuths. This book is so obscure that I feel lucky to have come across it, but it's available for free on Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL71037...
I'm interested in reading the other books in this series. It's unfortunate that it never caught on more, and that it's so difficult to dig up information about it now. This was so funny and engaging, and it's hard to find children's books with well-plotted, convincing mysteries that aren't tied up through convenience or a silly misunderstanding. This was a lot of fun. Three cheers for hand-me-downs! I'm keeping this in my personal library.
IT'S HILARIOUS. It made me laugh out loud multiple times, and it had me at hello, when a girl doing a magic show at school pulled a stuffed panda out of a hat. That was NOT a common stuffed animal in 1985, and since my beloved stuffed panda is from the same year, I would like to imagine that this was one of his cousins. This subjective aspect of my experience hooked me on the book, but it got even better from there.
The first-person narrative voice is hilarious, and the book is full of vivid, funny details, like the boy's mother being obsessed with magazine quizzes to determine whether or not they have achieved sufficient Family Togetherness. There is also an amusing rivalry with the girl who did the magic tricks at the beginning, and a hilarious misunderstanding as she tries to convince the main character and his sidekick that her dad is a detective. The mystery also comes to a satisfying resolution, with laugh-out-loud lines during the climax and police confrontation.
There are different 1980s details throughout, such as mentions of a Walkman, but the book isn't overly dated. I would recommend this to kids and adults who enjoy humorous chapter books, mystery stories, and determined child sleuths. This book is so obscure that I feel lucky to have come across it, but it's available for free on Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL71037...
I'm interested in reading the other books in this series. It's unfortunate that it never caught on more, and that it's so difficult to dig up information about it now. This was so funny and engaging, and it's hard to find children's books with well-plotted, convincing mysteries that aren't tied up through convenience or a silly misunderstanding. This was a lot of fun. Three cheers for hand-me-downs! I'm keeping this in my personal library.
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