Mystery of the Burnt Cottage (Mysteries)

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Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA12230 Openlibrary_edition Stumped, the Find-Outers go off for a bike ride (where did Fatty get his?) and for the first time Enid takes them to a real place, Burnham Beeches. Bets is deemed too young to go and Fatty lets her walk Buster again. In typical Fatty style he promises to reward Bets with a bunch of primroses. Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's. urn:lcp:mysteryofburntco0000blyt_u1h3:epub:f0cccc2b-25e1-44d1-bdce-de0b063067b6 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mysteryofburntco0000blyt_u1h3 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7nq00m8s Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781405203937

After some discussion they decide to form a detective club, at first intending to have just the three older children as members but eventually all five get together and Bets comes up with the name 'The Five Find-Outers and Dog'. As an aside there appears to be some discrepancy as to whether the real Inspector's name was Jennings or Jenkins. I have used the former because it is the name Barbara Stoney uses in Enid's biography, but I note Imogen Smallwood amongst others uses the latter, so perhaps readers of this article many supply the true answer. The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage is the first in the series of children's novels the Five Find-Outers by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1943 and continues to be frequently reissued. [1] Plot summary [ edit ]

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Margaret 'Daisy' Daykin, Larry's younger sister. and the person who had the original idea for the Five Find-Outers It was plainly no use to look about where all the watchers had been the night before. The garden was completely trampled down just there, and the criss-cross of footprints was everywhere. The children separated, and very solemnly began to hunt about alongside the overgrown path to the cottage, and in the tall hedges that overhung the ditches at the bottom of the garden. Buster looked too, but as he had a firm idea that every one was hunting for rabbits, he put his nose down each rabbit hole, and scraped violently and hopefully. It always seemed to him a great pity that rabbits didn’t make their holes big enough for dogs. How easy, then, to chase a scampering bunny! “Look at Buster hunting for clues,” said Pip, with a giggle. The children looked for footprints. There were none on the path, which was made of cinders, and showed no footmarks at all, of course. They looked about in the celandines that grew in their hundreds beside the path. But there was nothing to be seen there either. Pip wandered off to a ditch over which hung a drooping hedge of bramble and wild rose. And there he found something! He gave a low and excited call to the others. “Here! I say, come here! I’ve found something! “ At once everyone crowded over to him. Buster too. His nose quivering. “What is it?” said Larry. I would have easily loved this series when I was eight. It's still very charming now. It has a fantastic sense of humour -- the 'Find-Outers' being kid-speak for detectives, naming the grumpy policeman Clear-Orf because he's always yelling 'Clear off!', for example. Larry Daykin spots the fire to the west of the village from his bedroom window as he is preparing to go to bed. As his parents are out, he and his sister Daisy are free to get dressed and go and investigate. En route down their lane they pass another house from which they are joined by their contemporary Pip Hilton and his sister Bets who is four years younger. As the Hilton parents are quite strict about letting their children out we must assume they too are out for the evening. According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.

Arriving with several other villagers at the fire scene they discover that as the nearest fire engine is in the next village the fire has taken an unassailable hold on the cottage. Mr. Goon the village policeman leading the fire fighting efforts greets them with his usual cry of "Clear orf you!" When a small Scottie dog appears and barks around Goon's ankles they are therefore less sympathetic than they might have been. The dog's owner who is 'plump, well-dressed and rather pleased with himself' and has an 'effected drawling' voice is trying to throw pails of water on the fire. His aim is not good and Larry gets partially soaked, though as we soon learn this inaccuracy is out of character.