Five Get Into Trouble: Book 8 (Famous Five)

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This book has all the elements required for a thrilling Enid Blyton story including the Uppity and Undisciplined Outsider who needs gentle guidance onto the right path ... possibly by Julian:- Richard: "Who is there to stop us?" When all the various bad guys (and Aggie, whom Julian tells the Inspector to go easy on) are rounded up, Julian’s just explaining that their family don’t even know they’re missing and they have nowhere to spend the night (uh…you were camping? You could camp for the night?) when the Inspector gets a message. I cannot stop worrying about Aggie. You know, for all the cosiness and lettuce, the dark undercurrents in these books are seriously dark. Every second kid the Five encounter is being beaten, and Aggie’s trapped in some sort of evil domestic servitude.

However, the scorn from Julian and the others actually have a good effect on Richard. The fact that these children think so little of him actually pushes him to grow beyond his spoiled ways and try hard to earn their respect. It's a plot that reminded me of Captains Courageous.Probably, because - despite my love for these books as a kid - I can't bring myself to give more than 1*. As a teen, Enid Blyton's works are clearly your go-to books if you desire to while away your time. Sadly for me, I was never serious about reading then & chose reading as a hobby while at university. So recently, at a book exhibition, when I got an opportunity to buy one of Enid's novels, I was elated. I really couldn't help myself with not purchasing it. Experience this novel without reasoning as to whatever will fit wherever. The criminals attempt to poison Timmy the dog, because criminals always do. However Timmy has had so much experience of attempts to poison him that he can probably trace more types of poison than Hercule Poirot. They search the map for Owl’s Dene. It’s not there, but there is an “Owl’s Hill,” so they decide to try that.

you know what? Even my current, quite lovely, relationship could have been entirely predicted based on my teenaged self’s love for Dr. Watson and James Herriot. How disturbing is that?) No,’ said Aggie. ‘No phone, no gas, no electricity, no water laid on, no nothing. Only just secrets and signs and comings and goings and threats and…’ Then they stop for lunch, which is egg sandwiches, sardine sandwiches, the extra ginger beers they bought, and sausage meat sandwiches for Timmy. Awww, I love that George made him sandwiches. Usually they just appear to feed him by giving him bones to gnaw on, which worries me a bit. They try eating the eggs and bread and ham they bought from the rude farmer, but that proves impossible while riding so they stop and sit by the side of the road. There’s a fallen-down cottage nearby, and while they’re eating a ‘big stream-lined car’ comes along, driving with its headlights off. Five Get into Trouble is the eighth novel in The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1949.A big bag of nonsense but good enough fun for children. I'm listening to the whole series with my disabled daughter and it seems to be entertaining her pretty well. In here, Inspector,’ drawled Mr. Perton. ‘We were having a little conference, and heard the hammering at the door. Apparently you got in somehow. I’m afraid you’ll get into trouble for this.’ Timmy serves as a buffer between the criminals and the children. An attempt (one of about a dozen in the series) is made to poison him. The rest of them go into the kitchen to eat (again?), bringing Timmy with them. Hunchy threatens to get Rooky, but George says Timmy will just bite his other hand, and anyway, won’t Rooky be surprised to see Timmy alive? George, I wouldn’t taunt these people too much or one of them might shoot Timmy.

So our heroes set off with plenty of provisions and camping equipment and (of course) ginger beer. There must have been a larger supply of ginger beer in Enid Blyton’s time than is found nowadays. I wondered what happened to it. Maybe the Five drank it all. Mrs. Thurlow Kent (ah yes, the good old days when married women ceased to have their own first names) has rung and asked Julian and the others to come spend the night with Richard.That’s unexpectedly shrewd of Julian. Whatever hold Perton has over Aggie, it might make her too vulnerable to keep secrets from him. Aunt Fanny also says that Timmy is ‘as good as any grown-up at looking after you,’ which a) I don’t believe and b) is a ridiculously infantilizing way to talk to a group of fourteen-to-sixteen-year-olds. No wonder I never realized how old they’d gotten.