I always liked the "Headless Horseman" when I was a kid, it was a fun one. The Bob-Whites are putting on a bazaar to raise money for...UNICEF, I think? I forget. Some charity or another :) At any rate, the night before Di's butler, Harrison, goes missing. Since the bazaar is at Di's house and the only way her parents would agree to it, since they're out of town, is if Harrison supervises, so Trixie and Honey go looking for him. They find him locked in the cellar of his friend Mrs. Crandall's house. Harrison claims he accidentally locked himself in there, but Trixie investigates the door and discovers there's no way he could have, someone locked him in. If that weren't mysterious enough, it turns out Mrs. Crandall's late husband, Jonathan, was the prime suspect in the disappearance of a valuable Ming vase from the museum where he worked. He passed away suddenly before anyone could find the missing vase. Trixie is convinced she can figure it out and clear Mr. Crandall's name. It's elementary :)
Another really fun one. A true milestone in the Trixie series: Dan actually got to go somewhere with the Bob-Whites!! Hey, I think it's the first and only time, poor guy. The Bob-Whites are in the Catskills, at Miss Trask's family home, which is a pirate themed inn! Miss Trask, girl, you have been holding out on us. Who knew she was so cool? And there's a real mystery to be solved. One of her ancestors disappeared in a room full of people, seconds before he would have been arrested by British soldiers. Miss Trask's brother, Frank, announces he's solved the mystery and right before he is able to explain, he disappears too!
His loan is due to be paid, and the safe is empty. Miss Trask doesn't know where he hid the money, but if the Bob-Whites don't find Frank before seven o'clock, the Inn will belong to Nick, who loaned Frank the money.
"Hudson River Mystery" is the one where I learned not to eat apple seeds :)
Trixie swears she sees a shark in the Hudson. Meanwhile, big brother Brian is acting weird: he actually gets in a (very minor) car wreck, flunks a big test, and is questioning whether or not he even wants to be a doctor! When he faints at his birthday dinner, everyone figures out quick that Brian's really sick. He's been poisoned. Poor guy :( Turns out his lab partner, Loyola, has been feeding him Waldorf salad full of apple seeds, which can lead to cyanide poisoning. Whoops. As to the sharks in the Hudson, it was a couple of treasure hunters looking for a ship that went down that was rumored to be full of gold.
The covers of these last few slay me. Why does Trixie have a mullet?
Jim isn't in this one, either. Boo.
Mr. Wheeler is letting an archaeological dig take place in his preserve, and the Bob-Whites are all helping out. Trixie is suspicious of Charles Miller, a graduate student leading the dig. He's very unfriendly and pays way too much attention to the valuables in Honey's house.
What really ticked me off about this one was the ghostwriter said Lady was Trixie's favorite horse, when clearly it was Susie. Get it right, people!
None of the boys are in this one, and Honey is infatuated with Pat Murrow, the son of the rancher they are visiting in Minnesota (I kept screaming "what about Brian?"), so this one is definitely one of my least favorites. Plus the writer said Honey had blue eyes. No she did not. They were hazel.
The horse ranch may or may not be haunted by a man who was lynched for stealing a cow, but Mr. Murrow still doesn't want to sell to Burke, the guy building ugly condos on the land surrounding the Murrow's ranch. It was weird and pretty dumb, honestly.
And that's it for the Trixie rereads. I skipped #14, because I read it not that long ago and remembered it really well, so I didn't feel like reading it again, although I might. I'm not sure what I'm going to do now. Read actual adult books I haven't read before, I suppose :)
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