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Original Title:	The Mystery of the Strange Messages
ISBN:	1405204060 (ISBN13: 9781405204064)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Five Find-Outers #14, Salaisuus #11
Characters:	Philip 'Pip' Hilton, Margaret 'Daisy' Dakin, Buster the Dog, Laurence 'Larry' Daykin, Frederick Algernon 'Fatty' Trotteville, Elizabeth 'Bets' Hilton
Setting:	Peterswood(United Kingdom)

The Mystery of the Strange Messages (The Five Find-Outers #14)

Enid Blyton

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 1847 Users | 33 Reviews

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Findouters challenge: Book 14. This is the second of the findouters cases to involve mysterious letters, the first being the Mystery of the Spiteful Letters. This time though, the target is not random people around Peterswood but a certain Mr Smith against whom they are directed and Mr Goon to whom all the notes are addressed. The notes are anonymous and composed of words/letters cut out of newspapers and magazines. Nobody is seen leaving the notes but they appear all over Goon’s house. Goon immediately suspects Fatty and goes to warn off the findouters but this turns out to be a blessing in disguise for our five who have no case to solve (as usual) in the holidays. Goon too soon realises that it wasn’t the findouters who are playing a trick and enlists Ern’s help―actually hires him to help. And so the Findouters start off on another exciting mystery, this one with plenty of hidden secrets and also more to it than first meets the eye. Like in the Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage, Ern takes on a more active role in this one and does himself proud.

Before I get to my reactions to the actual book itself, I have to rant about the updated eds. Totally my fault, but somehow, I bought a new edition (2011) of this one, something I actively avoid doing usually, and every change they made―pointless in my view (except may be one, but even that didn’t make sense) jarred. For instance, Fatty always called his parents ‘mother’ and ‘father’―which has been changed here to ‘mummy’ and ‘daddy’―why? Do children today not know what ‘mother’ and ‘father’ means, or is it so hard to understand that perhaps in the past, people addressed their parents differently? Elsewhere ‘daily woman’ becomes ‘cleaning lady’―again something that needn’t have been changed, anyone can easily look it up―isn’t that the point of books (or one of the points, at any rate) that you learn new things― new words/expressions, new things about other places and cultures, about your own culture/ country, about the past. Such pointless changes simply ruin the book for me, it loses its sense of time and place, which is part of its value. A third change that stood out was all the references to ‘fat boy’ which is what Goon does call Fatty are changed to ‘big boy’―this I get why it was changed but for one, it wasn’t used in the sense that it is understood today (something else that children today can’t understand, apparently―if we go by the changes), and two, it was meant to be nasty, which ‘big boy’ simply doesn’t convey. Grrrr….

Apart from the edition, Blyton herself made a bit of a mistake in this one, with Mrs Trotteville claiming that she’s been living in Peterswood from nineteen years, when she and her family only moved here in book 2 of the series―and if it were indeed nineteen years since then, our findouters ought to have been in their thirties now 

But anyway, now finally the story itself. While the updated text, as I said, was jarring, the story itself was interested. The opening was different from the usual (one or the other of the children having to be received from the station, holidays with nothing to do)―this one begins with Goon puzzling over the anonymous notes and takes off from there. The mystery was one of the more interesting ones with as I said a little more complicated than it seems at first and it was fun to see how Fatty worked the whole thing out. Of course, it was him that put together everything at the end. Bets this time has some good ideas but one major clue comes from Ern and his attempts at writing por’try (I always forget that all his poetry begins with ‘The Poor Old’ or ‘Pore Old’ ) and Ern indeed has a very active role in this one, helping the findouters and Fatty when he is needed the most, and proving himself brave, loyal, and clever. The solution was among the more interesting ones and was rather enjoyable. There was disguising of course, though only once, and actual investigating by all the findouters. On the foodmeter, this one was average, there was food, plenty, but not overflowing. Sid and Perce’s antics are brought in, and with it some laughs, though they themselves don’t make an appearance. A fun read though spoiled for me by the edition (which I must get rid of asap and replace with an older one).

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Title	:	The Mystery of the Strange Messages (The Five Find-Outers #14)
Author	:	Enid Blyton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	October 2nd 2003 by Egmont Books Ltd (first published 1956)
Categories	:	Mystery. Childrens. Fiction. Adventure

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Ratings: 4.05 From 1847 Users | 33 Reviews

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Enid has never quite got the right balance in a Fatty book since the first one (of course, I still have one to read); either the mystery is annoying, or the characterisation is off. In this case, the mystery has its ups and downs, while no characters except Fatty and Ern really get to do anything.Enid is clearly losing it by this point; she has confused Fatty's mother with Pip's, and at one point has Pip say a line while he's waiting outside, only for him to come in complaining of the cold a few

Findouters challenge: Book 14. This is the second of the findouters cases to involve mysterious letters, the first being the Mystery of the Spiteful Letters. This time though, the target is not random people around Peterswood but a certain Mr Smith against whom they are directed and Mr Goon to whom all the notes are addressed. The notes are anonymous and composed of words/letters cut out of newspapers and magazines. Nobody is seen leaving the notes but they appear all over Goons house. Goon

serial Pasukan Mau Tahu ini salah satu favorit sayadan masih saja dibaca jika ingin, soalnya cerita2 dari Enid Blyton seperti tak lekang oleh jamanmisteri berita aneh ini, seru seperti biasa, apalagi tokoh yang berperan utamanya kali ini Ern, keponakan pak Goon ! :D

چند روز پيش كه دخترخالم ميخوندش كنارش نشستم خوندم و چقدر براي يك بچه ي ١٠ ساله هيجان انگيزهمن كه مردم از سررفتگي شديد حوصلهولي براي بچه ها عاليه

I still enjoy Enid Blyton's books for kids. I still get totally involved in the mystery and still love stringing the clues together. Another wonderful adventure with memorable characters.

Good read.

Ya Tuhan. Ini bacaan saya sewaktu saya masih kecil. Saya dulu suka banget sama serial Pasukan Mau Tahu, jauh lebih suka daripada Lima Sekawan. Ketahuan, sih, saya anaknya hipster sejak kecil :v Hum, lumayan seru juga, sih, menguak misteri berita aneh di sini karena Nyonya Blyton mengajak kita bertualang ke sana dan ke sini.