Oh gleeps. Instead of reading my library books, I reread two of my favorite (after Glen Road, of course) Trixie books.
Trixie and the gang find a baby in Reddy's doghouse after a sudden summer thunderstorm. The kids name the baby Moses Bobwhite and argue over who gets to wake up in the middle of the night to feed the baby and change his dirty diapers, as teenagers do. The rest of the Bob-Whites basically move into Crabapple Farm so they can take turns taking care of the baby. Somehow Mr. and Mrs. Belden don't seem to mind.
At any rate, the police actually ask for Trixie and Honey's help in finding the baby's older brother, Davy. Seems Davy thought his parents were going to sell him and his baby brother at an auction, so he ran away. The parents are getting threatening ransom notes. It was a fun one, even if the kids have a really close call in the end.
"The Gatehouse Mystery" is the first one with Mart and Brian (hooray!), back from summer camp. Trixie and Honey find a diamond in the abandoned gatehouse on the Wheeler's property and decide to do the sensible thing and keep it while trying to track down the no doubt extremely dangerous criminal who stole it. Trixie is immediately suspicious of two new employees on the Wheeler estate: the gardener and the chauffeur, Dick. She and Honey finally let the boys in on their secret, and being the responsible older brothers they are they agree that it would be best if they caught the criminal themselves rather than get the police involved. Of course poor Jim nearly gets killed, but hey, small price to pay for solving the mystery yourselves.
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