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Madcap Mystery
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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. Scandinavian kids' mysteries [s]

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message 1: by Rosa (new)

Rosa (rosaiglarsh) | 5392 comments My father would like to find a series of books he read as a kid in the 60's or 70's. He says they may have been set in Norway (he wasn't sure), and one of them had the word "madcap" or something like it in the title. They were about some kids who solved mysteries. They were translated into English, of course. Thank you for your help.


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Krazykiwi | 152 comments Mästerdetektiven Blomkvist by Astrid Lindgren? There were three of these, and the first is from 1975. Sorry I don't know the name offhand in English.

(There's also a very popular series my kids were crazy about, but it's far too new, starting in 2002 - Lassemaja's detektivbyrå. I'm just mentioning it because if you search for scandinavian kids detectives, you will definitely find a bunch of those, and it's almost certainly not what you're after).


message 3: by Rosa (new)

Rosa (rosaiglarsh) | 5392 comments Thank you--I'll ask him.


message 4: by Sherri (new)

Sherri | 74 comments The English versions of these are "Bill Bergson, Master Detective", "Bill Bergson Lives Dangerously ", and "Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue".


message 5: by Krazykiwi (new)

Krazykiwi | 152 comments Thanks Sherri. Looking up other editions on the app on the tablet is painful, but I wanted to answer before I forgot the name in Swedish too!


message 6: by Rosa (new)

Rosa (rosaiglarsh) | 5392 comments Thank you, Sherri.


message 7: by Rosa (new)

Rosa (rosaiglarsh) | 5392 comments I asked, and it's not those. He says there was no central character; it was about a group of middle school-age children.


message 8: by Kris (new)

Kris | 55141 comments Mod
Madcap Mystery (1962) by Karin Anckarsvärd?
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories. Sweden -- Juvenile fiction.

Other books in this series with Michael and Cecilia include The Mysterious Schoolmaster and The Robber Ghost.


message 9: by Rosa (new)

Rosa (rosaiglarsh) | 5392 comments My dad says that's it! Thank you so much!


message 10: by Kris (last edited Mar 10, 2017 08:44AM) (new)

Kris | 55141 comments Mod
That's wonderful. So glad we could help.

I used the advanced search on www.worldcat.org - it's great for old children's books.

Keyword: mystery | Title: madcap | 1950-1985 | Juvenile | Fiction | Book | English


message 11: by Rosa (new)

Rosa (rosaiglarsh) | 5392 comments My dad's been reading and reading all three of these books. He's very happy. He's come across some scenes that he remembered from first reading them.


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