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The fruit cellar. 😱

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Not a Hitchcock you'd think of right away, but grippingly good.

(1969) Twelfth in the "Three Investigators" series of juvenile mysteries. This one has the boys stumbling across a sinister plot to steal the lost treasure of a fictional Native American tribe. The mystery is mostly transparent, and several things haven't aged well -- most noticably the depiction of Native Americans. It's still the Three Investigators but not one of the better ones.

Pretty sure this is the fastest I've ever clocked a #BookSpin, since "The Mystery of the Talking Skull" was my New Year's read. So ... success! My #DoubleSpin is a Spanish novella which won the Premio Ignotus last year in the "short novel" category. My español is muy básica so I expect that one will take a little longer.

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(1969) Eleventh in my favorite juvenile mystery series. In this one Jupe, Pete, and Bob buy an old trunk at an auction. The trunk turns out to have belonged to a traveling magician: among its contents are the magician's trademark trick "the talking skull", and a letter with clues pointing to a hidden treasure. It's not one of the series' best -- too many points that stretch believability for that -- but it's fast and fun as always.

(1967) Eighth in the Three Investigators series, and the weakest so far. The prince of a tiny European monarchy invites the boys abroad to attend his coronation. The US government gets involved, and employs the boys as "junior agents" inside the castle. It's less a mystery than a Ruritanian adventure, and feels out of place in the series, though I probably liked it fine when I was in the target audience.

This was my #DoubleSpin for January

Finished this puzzle my mom gave me a while ago… it was a mystery, no picture of the puzzle with it, but a murder mystery that describes the crime scene. It was pretty neat, I did the puzzle first and just read the little short story about the three suspects. Got to try out my new puzzle board I got for Christmas. Happy new year everyone!

(1967) Seventh in the Three Investigators mystery series. In this one Jupiter, Pete, and Bob help a British boy whose American uncle has left him a mysterious inheritance and the only clues to its location are in a cryptic letter left by his uncle.

It's a tidy little puzzle, and the Three Investigators do what they do. If you like the formula then you'll like this one too, as I did.

This is my #DoubleSpin read for November.
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One of the best combinations: the three question marks and an espresso.

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