Solve-It-Yourself Mysteries by Stephen Thraves.Original Five Find-Outers Mystery Novels by Enid Blyton.The Five Find-Outers (and Dog) Mystery Books The first title in the series, The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage, was published in 1943 and the earliest editions of the books were illustrated by Joseph Abbey, Treyer Evans and Lilian Buchanan. As Daisy remarks, "Without Fatty we're like rabbit-pie without any rabbit in it."įull of humour and intrigue, the Find-Outers books paint a fascinating picture of life in a mid twentieth-century English village - a world of cosiness, quirkiness and class-consciousness peopled by colourful characters such as tramps, fair-folk, errand boys on bicycles, shop-keepers, cooks and the well-to-do.
He may be boastful and arrogant but he is also generous, ingenious, a master of disguise and deduction, ventriloquist, escapologist, poet and macaroon-gobbler extraordinaire! Things just aren't the same when he's not around. It is in part the character of Fatty that makes these books so special. Often, bright young Bets makes an observation which sets Fatty's cogs turning, enabling him to solve the most baffling of cases ahead of Goon and earn words of praise from Inspector Jenks (who is later promoted to Chief Inspector and then Superintendent). When working on "a nice, juicy mystery," Fatty and the others hunt for clues (or "glues" as Bets calls them), don disguises, interview suspects, check out alibis and gradually put together the jigsaw until the last piece falls into place. He does his best to outsmart the Find-Outers but Fatty ("that Toad of a Boy!") and his friends are always one step ahead, sometimes aided and abetted by Goon's own nephew, Ern.
The children investigate crimes in and around the riverside village of Peterswood, much to the annoyance of the village policeman, blustering buffoon Mr. However, his vibrant personality, inventiveness and sparkling sense of humour make Fatty a fun, larger-than-life character whose nickname quickly becomes a term of endearment. Fatty's real name is Frederick Algernon Trotteville and, unfortunately for him, his initials fit him to a tee.
The Five Find-Outers and Dog are Fatty, Larry, Daisy, Pip, Bets and Fatty's Scottie dog, Buster.
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