Status Updates From The Woodshed Mystery

“ “Ask him anyway,” said Henry, laughing. “He will be here in a minute, I know.”
“How do you know?” Asked Benny. “Well, he wanted to stay when he brought Aunt Jane here in the plane. He told me he didn’t want to leave. He didn’t say why.” Henry smiled. “

This is directly after the last quote. I hope I’m reading too much into this. -_-;

“Jessie said “He isn’t MY John Carter, Henry.” But Violet looked at her sister’s face, & saw it turning pink.”


This is the guy - a federal agent at the time, I think? - who they met when Jessie was… maybe around 14/15? In the ‘Mystery Ranch’ book.

Ick. Hopefully it stays just a crush, or she gets over it.
Probably - I think their ages must ‘freeze’ at some point with so many books.

“My, my,” she laughed. “A grown man named Willie. You ought to be William.”

Then she moves on to talking about him being (mentally) slow because he didn’t talk much, pretty much one word answers. Maggie’s kind of a bitch.

I think maybe this is thie Dilbert (?) guy that helped fix up the house - he was the same way when introduced.

He’s named Simian? What the hell, Warner? I’d go by a nickname, too.

I thought it was a year after the last book, thinking that was their summer vacation - but they were doing homework during their trip.

Squinting. Honestly a bit surprised - usually in kids books, the ages are static. Henry was in high school the last book, now he’s in college? So this is the summer after the last book, then?