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The Riddle of the Hidden Treasure
Nick, Katie and Laura are staying with Laura's grandparents in their beautiful old manor house. When the children hear how family treasure was hidden long ago, they are determined to find it and thus save the family estate from being sold.
192 pages, Paperback
Published October 7, 2013
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Enid Blyton
5,122 books6,285 followersSee also:
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)
Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.
Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.
Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.
See also her pen name Mary Pollock
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)
Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.
Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.
Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.
See also her pen name Mary Pollock
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May 5, 2025
Best book in the series so far. Laura's character was diminished somehow but boy was it a ride!!
A proper adventure mystery just like Blyton always delivered!!!
A proper adventure mystery just like Blyton always delivered!!!
October 2, 2017
Oh my god my absolute favorite book of all time. I got it from my school library and now I'm about to go to uni so its been a long time since I last read it. SO MUCH NOSTALGIA. I suddenly got the urge to recommend it to my BFFs and FORCE THEM TO READ IT. The centuries old Greyling's treasure, the 'G' of Greyling, the woods, the dusty little cottage in the woods, the stream and the water lilies! Cleaning the place out, the little fireplace, the blocked chimney, cooking for themselves, carrying the water from the stream in small buckets, the three cups from Granny's(I'm forgetting if this really was how they referred to her) cupboard,the goats and their game (forgot the name),the farm and the nice red faced farmers and their apples, the secret hiding place in the manor that connects the cupboard in Nick's room (I think) to the drawing room downstairs, the map! The compass on Nick's watch, following the map, the property guy (again, I forgot the actual term), the hill, the innocent tricks to put the guy on a goose chase! The hiding place of the real map (GOD! I loved the hiding place, so clever), the very literal rule-following ;) the chase, the TREASURE and again a clever little trick ;) And then the jewels, the little antique shop owner, the BEJEWELED CUPS ERMEGERD I LOVED THEM THEY SEEMED JUST SO MAGNIFICENT AND MAJESTIC GAWD!!! I just absolutely adored this book. This is one of the books that made me want to write too, though I must admit, my book was more influenced my some of later reads, like the Famous five. But this story is my home, my safe corner, my cuddle-book, soft ad beautiful but definitely not boring, not a single boring moment, something is always happening. And again, the well mannered children are SUCH a delight to me. Now I'm going to look for an online version of this because whether or not I made you want to devour this book, I most certainly made me want to devour it again.
January 11, 2013
I think this is a very well written book by Enid Blyton as every part of the story are mysteries that would force you to continue reading rather than putting it down,thus i strongly recommend this book to everybody.This is a story about three children who were staying at their grandparents beautiful old manor house and when the children heard about the lost family treasure,and how it was hidden long ago,they are determined to find the treasure that could save the family estate from being sold.However,when one half of the map they have discovered was stolen by a bad guy who also wanted to get the treasure,it seems they're not the only ones who are looking for the treasure.Can the children solve the mystery and outwit their opponents in time to save Greylings Manor?If you want to know the next part of the story,borrow the book and start reading!
July 27, 2021
A little thank you to this book that gave me a taste of joy during my childhood.
May 12, 2020
i've read this book probably a billion times, and every timeb read it, it still feels fresh and new. adventurous, humorous and thoroughly entertaining book, it brings out the child in you, making me wish that i could experience some kind of a lovely adventure like this. its a must read book, and so are every book in this series.
June 20, 2021
I love this book as I love all Enid Blyton books, I just had so much fun reading and rereading it. it was my comfort book for quite some time and honestly I love the characters, they are so endearing , and I loved going on this journey with them.
March 2, 2015
I LOVED IT SO MUCH!!!!!
February 1, 2016
fabulous,fantastic,wonderful. so many words to describe how beautiful and amazing it was and i chose all of them to tell you about it. i just really loved it. its my favourite series of all times
March 28, 2018
by Enid Blyton. She's one of my fave authors. Love this book. For my birth. 192 pages altogether. Brill book so far.
June 17, 2018
Children's book. I would have loved reading her when I was a child.
It is about adventurous children.
Blyton wrote a number of series over the years.
It is about adventurous children.
Blyton wrote a number of series over the years.
March 1, 2019
Great story, but disappointed that so much was altered from the original. Unnecessary, in my opinion.
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