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Book 75, 2016
Sep. 29th, 2016 06:45 pmBefore Ieaving for vacay, I decided to pick up a short, light read, and last night I finished it. The book was The Mystery on the Mississippi, by Kathryn Kenny, and it's the 15th installment of the vintage Trixie Belden mysteries.
Trixie and the rest of the Bob-Whites get a chance to travel to St Louis when Honey's father has a conference to attend. As soon as Trixie and Honey get to their hotel room, they find a briefcase in the closet, left by the previous occupant. When they pick it up to take to the front desk, the case opens, and several papers fall out. While the girls are busy trying to collect the scattered papers, the case's owner returns and berates them for handling his property. He snatches up the papers and briefcase and leaves. Later, the girls find a few scattered pages that the man missed. Trixie is certain he's up to no good, and she puts the papers in her purse for safe-keeping.
The Bob-Whites get the chance of a lifetime to travel down the Mississippi River on a towboat. While on board, Trixie becomes suspicious of two new workers who seem a bit sketchy to her. Later, someone ransacks her stateroom, which is when the rest of the Bob-Whites begin taking Trixie's theories about the shady man at the hotel seriously.
There was a lot of activity crammed into only a few days' worth of trip. Trixie nearly died three times, and by the third time, I was getting weary of it. I really love this series, but this one was much darker and more sinister than previous books. There were kidnappers, guns, a mysterious map, and too many close calls to count. Not my favorite in this series by a long shot.
Favorite line: "You're just like a bulldog with a hold on a tramp's leg."
Meh. Three stars:
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Trixie and the rest of the Bob-Whites get a chance to travel to St Louis when Honey's father has a conference to attend. As soon as Trixie and Honey get to their hotel room, they find a briefcase in the closet, left by the previous occupant. When they pick it up to take to the front desk, the case opens, and several papers fall out. While the girls are busy trying to collect the scattered papers, the case's owner returns and berates them for handling his property. He snatches up the papers and briefcase and leaves. Later, the girls find a few scattered pages that the man missed. Trixie is certain he's up to no good, and she puts the papers in her purse for safe-keeping.
The Bob-Whites get the chance of a lifetime to travel down the Mississippi River on a towboat. While on board, Trixie becomes suspicious of two new workers who seem a bit sketchy to her. Later, someone ransacks her stateroom, which is when the rest of the Bob-Whites begin taking Trixie's theories about the shady man at the hotel seriously.
There was a lot of activity crammed into only a few days' worth of trip. Trixie nearly died three times, and by the third time, I was getting weary of it. I really love this series, but this one was much darker and more sinister than previous books. There were kidnappers, guns, a mysterious map, and too many close calls to count. Not my favorite in this series by a long shot.
Favorite line: "You're just like a bulldog with a hold on a tramp's leg."
Meh. Three stars:
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