I have read most of The Boxcar Children series, by Gertrude Chandler Warner. The first book in the series is not a mystery book, the other books are. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their rich grandfather after their parents died in a car accident. They travel to many places including Niagra Falls, the Whitehouse, and many other well-known places, and solve mysteries. The first about ten books are written by the original […] Read more »
Detectives in Togas, by Henry Winterfeld, Book Review
Seven schoolboys, Caius, Mucius, Flavius, Publius, Julius, Rufus, and Antonius, lead a dull and boring life in ancient Rome, (772 by Roman years, 24 A.D. by American years). That is, until Rufus hangs a wax tablet stating in plain words, CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL, on the wall of the classroom, gets in a fight with Caius, and is expelled from school by their teacher Xantippus. But when the very same words appear on the sacred […] Read more »