The Case of the Bashful Bank Robber

McGurk Mystery #10

by E.W. Hildick, Lisl Weil (Illustrator)

An imaginatively funny account of the McGurk detectives as they devise an ingenious plan to catch a bashful bank robber who is threatening the banks of their community

Genres: Mystery, Juvenile, Childrens, Fiction

138 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

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

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

The McQurk Detective Organization finds themselves in a lull after the Christmas Holidays, so McQurk's surprise training session on the powers of observation quickly finds them involved in a bank robbery, and helping Lt. Kapser, and an FBI agent named Mr.Willis nail the criminals.