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The Secret #2
The Secret of Spiggy Holes
While on holiday by the sea, Mike, Peggy, Nora and their friend Jack go exploring in the caves on the beach. They soon discover a secret passage that leads to the Old House on the cliff, where they find a kidnapped young prince is being held captive! The friends make a bold plan to help the Prince escape - but will it succeed?
163 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 1940
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Enid Blyton
5,220 books6,349 followersSee also:
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)
Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.
Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.
Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.
See also her pen name Mary Pollock
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)
Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.
Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.
Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.
See also her pen name Mary Pollock
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June 18, 2025
A very enjoyable adventure with the three Arnold children and Jack again. I love the names of places she has in her books. This has to be one of the best along with Peep-Hole Cottage where the children are staying. Once again secret passages and caves abound. It doesn't matter how many times she uses these the characters and the adventures are still great reading. I like this series but think I must have only read it once as a child as I don't remember the stories.
September 27, 2014
It's not surprising to learn that the 'Secret' series contains Enid Blyton's first works in the adventure genre, as the building blocks for many 'Famous Five' and 'Adventure' stories are easy to spot in this book. Just about any later novel with secret caves and passages, signalling from towers, and foreign princes who need to come to England for a proper, decent education to remove their horrible foreign ways, can be traced back to The Secret of Spiggy Holes.
In their pure and unrefined form, these ideas still make a great children's adventure story with plenty of excitement and suspense. However, I do think it's rather a shame that the previous book in this series ended with the children's parents promising that they would never sod off to God-knows-where in their aeroplane again, and this one starts with the children's parents having sodded off to God-knows-where (well, Ireland) in their aeroplane again. You can never rely on parents, especially in Enid Blyton's world.
In their pure and unrefined form, these ideas still make a great children's adventure story with plenty of excitement and suspense. However, I do think it's rather a shame that the previous book in this series ended with the children's parents promising that they would never sod off to God-knows-where in their aeroplane again, and this one starts with the children's parents having sodded off to God-knows-where (well, Ireland) in their aeroplane again. You can never rely on parents, especially in Enid Blyton's world.
March 13, 2016
Like for other series of hers, Enid Blyton earns her spurs during description of coastlines and caves and secret passages. The various forgotten routes and secret mechanisms to activate doors are maturely exposed and I feel I cannot really write as good as a detailed story myself. So it's confirmed that Enid Blyton is a better storyteller than me. But I knew that already! The plot is about a dark young Prince being kidnapped. The main character of the previous book, The Secret Island, makes a cameo here. Of course all ends well. As I've always said, these books can give an adult thriller a run for its money in terms of stakes and twists. There were two or three problems whose resolutions prompted me to give this book a well deserved four stars. I'll be reading more of this series soon.
June 7, 2012
I have read this book umpteen times in my childhood. And it was just as interesting as it was when I started it again a couple of days ago. This is about 4 children falling into a mystery and helping a kidnapped prince escape, while eating lots of goodies in between. Was Enid Blyton a foodie? all her books are chocful of treats and I feel hungry whenever I read those books.
February 19, 2019
I thought, given how many Famous Five books I have read and given how similar the blurb was between this and certain Famous Five mysteries, that I would find this to be a pale imitation. But no, The Secret of Spiggy Holes is a wonderful book with delightful characters. Similar theme yes, but a totally different adventure and most importantly one that does not feel dated (unlike the Famous Five series).
Enid's way of getting you into the children's point of view not only physically but also mentally is at it's best here. You will find yourself suspending belief and trusting totally as they trust. Only after you put the book down will you think - well actually that was rather obvious....
And that for me is the delight in this book.
I shall be looking to buy the rest of the series.
Enid's way of getting you into the children's point of view not only physically but also mentally is at it's best here. You will find yourself suspending belief and trusting totally as they trust. Only after you put the book down will you think - well actually that was rather obvious....
And that for me is the delight in this book.
I shall be looking to buy the rest of the series.
January 25, 2022
I read this two or three times as a child and enjoyed it, so when I saw a new edition I thought it might be fun to read it again, and see how well it had stood the test of time, and I would say it stood the test rather surprisingly well. I could still remember most of the plot -- four children go to spend a holiday in a seaside house in Cornwall, and discover something strange is going on in a nearby house, and decide to investigate, and that leads to various adventures.
The first book by Enid Blyton that I read, at about the age of 8, was The Secret of Kilimooin, a later book in the same series, which I had borrowed from a friend. This one i think I read in a school library. It was the first novel I had read set in England, an so it helped to shape my perception of England as a land of secret tunnels linking old buildings, and islands in lakes. And these tropes reappeared in other books that I read later. The Secret of Kilimooin was set in a fictitious country called Baronia, which sounded a lot like Romania.
There are also things one notices as an adult, though not as a child. One that I noticed about this book was that though it was published in war time, there was not the slightest hint of war in the book. I later read, as a child, some of the "William" books of Richmal Crompton. Many of them were first published during the Second World War, and the war formed the background to the stories. From them I learned the ,meaning of words like "quisling" and "propaganda". But The Secret of Spiggy Holes breathes not a word of the war. There is no hint of rationing. Civilian aircraft fly over from Eastern Europe and Ireland and land in fields in the open country without even a hint of customs or passport inspection. Perhaps it is escape literature -- did Enid Blyton perhaps think that with war on all around them, children would rather read about a different world, in which war does not intrude?
Will the children of our time enjoy them?
I suspect that they will.
The reviewer of one of my kids' books (set in 1964) expressed doubts whether 21st century kids would read a story set in an era with no cell phones, where they used old-fashioned language, even though acknowledging that he himself had read Enid Blyton books as a child. I recall reading and enjoying books like Black Beauty and Treasure Island even though there were no aeroplanes or motor cars or even the landline phones I knew in my childhood. I don't think the publishers have to worry whether the books they have reprinted will sell. And if the children don't buy them for themselves, parents and grandparents who enjoyed Enid Blyton's books in their own childhood will buy them for them.
The first book by Enid Blyton that I read, at about the age of 8, was The Secret of Kilimooin, a later book in the same series, which I had borrowed from a friend. This one i think I read in a school library. It was the first novel I had read set in England, an so it helped to shape my perception of England as a land of secret tunnels linking old buildings, and islands in lakes. And these tropes reappeared in other books that I read later. The Secret of Kilimooin was set in a fictitious country called Baronia, which sounded a lot like Romania.
There are also things one notices as an adult, though not as a child. One that I noticed about this book was that though it was published in war time, there was not the slightest hint of war in the book. I later read, as a child, some of the "William" books of Richmal Crompton. Many of them were first published during the Second World War, and the war formed the background to the stories. From them I learned the ,meaning of words like "quisling" and "propaganda". But The Secret of Spiggy Holes breathes not a word of the war. There is no hint of rationing. Civilian aircraft fly over from Eastern Europe and Ireland and land in fields in the open country without even a hint of customs or passport inspection. Perhaps it is escape literature -- did Enid Blyton perhaps think that with war on all around them, children would rather read about a different world, in which war does not intrude?
Will the children of our time enjoy them?
I suspect that they will.
The reviewer of one of my kids' books (set in 1964) expressed doubts whether 21st century kids would read a story set in an era with no cell phones, where they used old-fashioned language, even though acknowledging that he himself had read Enid Blyton books as a child. I recall reading and enjoying books like Black Beauty and Treasure Island even though there were no aeroplanes or motor cars or even the landline phones I knew in my childhood. I don't think the publishers have to worry whether the books they have reprinted will sell. And if the children don't buy them for themselves, parents and grandparents who enjoyed Enid Blyton's books in their own childhood will buy them for them.
April 4, 2007
This second book of the "secret" series is much weaker than the first. The first was different and more creative than the other Enid Blyton books, but the remainder of the series falls into her usual pattern. Which is a pattern I love, obviously, but I was surprised and happy about how different The Secret Island was that I guess I hoped it would hold through for the series.
August 23, 2020
This is just what I needed after going through a stressful time. I read a lot of Enid Blyton as a child but not this series. Adventure and lots of tasty food - these children stop to eat buckets of food practically every chapter. No depth of character but idependent and resourceful children.
June 14, 2019
Classic full of smugglers and secret tunnels.
August 20, 2020
It is very exciting and interesting. I love it
November 24, 2022
I love smuggler books. The children from The Secret Island are back, and they're now staying in some random lady's house whilst the parents galivant around Ireland doing adult things (or a lecture series). The house used to be part of a smuggler's run, and maybe it still is!
Lots of fun, even if a little dated.
Lots of fun, even if a little dated.
March 11, 2024
Just finished reading this out loud in full for the second time for the kids. Hence I've earned adding it to my reading tally
February 21, 2018
Nice adventure and flows well
June 12, 2021
A great children's book, full of excitement and thrills. I grew up on the books of Enid Blyton, so this brought back very fond memories. What stands out in her books is the independence of the children and their great abilities for problem solving. But, of course the world was much simpler then. One thing I really noticed in this book was the heavy focus on food - it's hard to believe that these children didn't end up as greatly overweight at the end of their summer holidays!
But, with the independence of the children comes the inevitable consideration of absent parenting, and leaving children to their own devices. In this instance, after boarding school, the four children are sent to spend their summer holidays with strangers while their parents are off pursuing some matter of their own. A convenient plot device obviously, but also perhaps a sign of how Blyton saw parenting?
But, with the independence of the children comes the inevitable consideration of absent parenting, and leaving children to their own devices. In this instance, after boarding school, the four children are sent to spend their summer holidays with strangers while their parents are off pursuing some matter of their own. A convenient plot device obviously, but also perhaps a sign of how Blyton saw parenting?
February 24, 2015
Last year, I returned to Enid Blyton after a gap of many years with this book. After that went on to read over 40 books. Did not like the book much when I read it the first time but totally loved it reading it a second time. Think one needs to get into the right mood for Enid Blyton in order to enjoy her stories. Now reading this book in a series after the first book, it was kind of fun - it gives you more background and opportunity to connect with the characters. Of course the characters are not as distinct as Fatty in five find outers or Snubby and Barney in R mysteries, George in Famous Five or all of the characters in Adventure series. But the stories are still fun. Somehow this series has greater continuity than the other series.
December 5, 2021
I read and reread The Famous Five, Faraway Tree, Malory Towers and St Clares novels constantly as a child. But as this is a book I have first read this year, it does not have the sentimentality of other Enid Blyton books.
Blyton books are good in putting kids front and centre in the action which is a boost for kids who can see themselves having the adventure. There is always alot of talk around meals which is funny.
Blyton books are good in putting kids front and centre in the action which is a boost for kids who can see themselves having the adventure. There is always alot of talk around meals which is funny.
October 12, 2008
I absolutely LOVED this book. It used to be my most favorite book for a LONG time!
March 8, 2011
Gosh! I loved this book as a child. It was the one that got me into reading novels and loving adventure stories.
March 10, 2020
Jack, Mike, Peggy dan Nora menghabiskan liburan musim panasnya disuatu tempat bernama Lorong Spiggy. Konon tempat itu dahulu merupakan tempat para penyeludup menyeludupkan barang-barang dan memberikan isyarat rahasia. Mereka menginap di sebuah rumah bernama Lubang Intip yang disebrangnya terdapat rumah kosong yang tak berpenghuni selama bertahun-tahun yang disebut Rumah Tua. Namun mereka terlibat dalam kejadian aneh saat ada orang yang membeli rumah tua yang berujung pada isyarat lampu, suara perahu motor ditengah malam dan tawanan di puncak menara.
Ternyata buku kedua dari seri Empat Serangkai ini bertema misteri/petualangan. Seperti kebanyakan seri Enid Blyton pada umumnya, anak-anak terlibat dalam petualangan saat liburan sekolah tiba. Petualangan disini cukup ringan dan mudah diikuti. Penjabaran mengenai lorong-lorong rahasia, gua-gua dan jalan rahasia juga bisa dibayangkan dengan jelas. Entah kenapa menurut saya disini misterinya kurang greget gitu. Tapi masih bisa dinikmati dan seru. Look forward to the next book :)
Ternyata buku kedua dari seri Empat Serangkai ini bertema misteri/petualangan. Seperti kebanyakan seri Enid Blyton pada umumnya, anak-anak terlibat dalam petualangan saat liburan sekolah tiba. Petualangan disini cukup ringan dan mudah diikuti. Penjabaran mengenai lorong-lorong rahasia, gua-gua dan jalan rahasia juga bisa dibayangkan dengan jelas. Entah kenapa menurut saya disini misterinya kurang greget gitu. Tapi masih bisa dinikmati dan seru. Look forward to the next book :)
March 23, 2023
After their last adventure, the kids are now excited for their next big vacation among the historic, smugglers ruins at Cornwall. Captain and Mrs. Arnold are off to Ireland for a seminar, and the four kids are to stay with their dearest, Dimmy for a summer, which they're hoping to spend swimming. Everything's great until the empty house next door is suddenly bought by a rude man. That's not it though, there seems to be a young boy trapped in the tower of that house to their shock. And thus, begins a whole new adventure.
"The Secret of Spiggy Holes" was an okay read. Everything is laid out in the open at the very onset so there's nothing new to excite you along the way. If you've read Enid Blyton before then you'd know that she has one book at least, in each of her mystery series dedicated to a concept surrounding the smugglers.
June 14, 2018
Bearing in mind that I'm a teenager rereading childhood favourite, I can say that I was rather disappointed with the second of Blyton's Secret Series. I often reread The Secret Island as it is one of my favourite childhood books but this is the first time since a kid that I've decided to reread the whole series.
Blyton definitely captured the adventurous aspect as she often does. However, seeing as I didn't remember a thing from this book, I was not hooked. When reading The Secret Island, I am always hooked despite knowing exactly what is going to happen.
Nevertheless, this book is a pleasant-enough tale and the return of to their secret island inflicted some much-needed nostalgia. What those kids would do without Jack? We'll never know.
Blyton definitely captured the adventurous aspect as she often does. However, seeing as I didn't remember a thing from this book, I was not hooked. When reading The Secret Island, I am always hooked despite knowing exactly what is going to happen.
Nevertheless, this book is a pleasant-enough tale and the return of to their secret island inflicted some much-needed nostalgia. What those kids would do without Jack? We'll never know.
July 23, 2018
I was a voracious reader as a child having entire series of "The Baby Sitter's Club", "Sweet Valley Kids", and "Sweet Valley High School", but nothing sparked my imagination like Enid Blyton. There were a few books of hers in circulation in the 1980's Pakistan, and I was probably the only girl (or maybe there was another) who knew about her. I would recommend her to anyone and everyone who liked reading and asked what I was reading. The way her short stories sparked my imagination impacted me more than I let on. They were parables like Disney animated movies in printed words and I would get lost in them for hours until my mother would call me for dinner. I would put Enid Blyton to the level of Roald Dahl and Dr. Suess. Check her out!!
August 1, 2020
It's the school holidays and the four children are ready for another adventure. With their parents away in Ireland on a lecture tour, Mike, Peggy, Nora and Jack are sent to the beach at Spiggy Holes in Cornwall, under the supervision of Miss Dimity. They are looking forward to sailing, swimming near the beach and exploring the caves where smugglers were said to come ashore in days long gone. There is also the abandoned mansion beside their smaller house which has a big garden to explore. It's shaping up to be an interesting summer.
The children decide to go to the big house and are startled to find it has unpleasant new owners who chase and threaten them, and install guard dogs to keep them out. The behaviour of the new people arouse suspicions especially when they hear that they have tried to buy Dimmy's house and were very angry at being turned down. They also try to buy the one boat in the area belonging to local man George who also refuses to sell. Could it be that these new people are modern day smugglers who want control of both houses and the boat to secretly transport something that they don't want anyone to know about? Why is the woman from the house questioning the children about what they do and where they go?
The four of them decide to keep watch day and night to look for any suspicious activity at the big house and finally they are rewarded when they see a signal going out to see. Rushing to hide in one of the caves, the children see the smugglers disappearing into a cave but not coming out. Could therebe a secret passage from the caves up to the big house, unused since the old days of smuggling? Dare they look in the cave and maybe follow a secret passage? And who is the boy that is locked in the tower room? Is there any way they could rescue him from his captors? How can they get past either the dogs or the locked tower doors?
I always enjoyed this kind of adventure in the books I read as a kid and the Secret series still delivers a good yarn even all these years later. I'm always amused by the way the kids never tell an adult what is going on and instead decide to solve the mystery themselves, getting into all kinds of trouble in the process. Adults and the police are rarely seeen as a good option to go for! But this book does it a little differently and the children reach a stage where they are going to have to confide in Dimmy and George and get their help with a plan. I actually liked seeing the kids and adults working together to try and reach the prisoner in the tower.
This was an enjoyable kids book that ramped up the adventure and tension elements that are always in this kind of book. I was actually pleased to find that I enjoyed this book as much now as I did at the time and I'll certainly be reading the rest of the series.
The children decide to go to the big house and are startled to find it has unpleasant new owners who chase and threaten them, and install guard dogs to keep them out. The behaviour of the new people arouse suspicions especially when they hear that they have tried to buy Dimmy's house and were very angry at being turned down. They also try to buy the one boat in the area belonging to local man George who also refuses to sell. Could it be that these new people are modern day smugglers who want control of both houses and the boat to secretly transport something that they don't want anyone to know about? Why is the woman from the house questioning the children about what they do and where they go?
The four of them decide to keep watch day and night to look for any suspicious activity at the big house and finally they are rewarded when they see a signal going out to see. Rushing to hide in one of the caves, the children see the smugglers disappearing into a cave but not coming out. Could therebe a secret passage from the caves up to the big house, unused since the old days of smuggling? Dare they look in the cave and maybe follow a secret passage? And who is the boy that is locked in the tower room? Is there any way they could rescue him from his captors? How can they get past either the dogs or the locked tower doors?
I always enjoyed this kind of adventure in the books I read as a kid and the Secret series still delivers a good yarn even all these years later. I'm always amused by the way the kids never tell an adult what is going on and instead decide to solve the mystery themselves, getting into all kinds of trouble in the process. Adults and the police are rarely seeen as a good option to go for! But this book does it a little differently and the children reach a stage where they are going to have to confide in Dimmy and George and get their help with a plan. I actually liked seeing the kids and adults working together to try and reach the prisoner in the tower.
This was an enjoyable kids book that ramped up the adventure and tension elements that are always in this kind of book. I was actually pleased to find that I enjoyed this book as much now as I did at the time and I'll certainly be reading the rest of the series.
June 12, 2023
قدیمی بودن داستان، کلی ایدئولوژی به آن وارد کرده. مثلا سنت بردهداری و خدمتگزاری در انگلیس مورد پذیرش داستان است و به عنوان چیزی عادی رسمیت دارد. در مهمانی باشکوه انتهایی، «حتی جورج» (که یک فرد بومی است که به دلایل نامعلومی به خدمتکار دونپایهی خانوادهی انگلیسی تبدیل میشود!) «هم» شرکت میکند، و چه افتخاری بالاتر از این برای جورج. خانم دیمیتی یک ماشین غذاپزی و ظرفشوری است. شخصیتهای خدمتگزار بومیای که با عشق و علاقه به فرزندان انگلیسی خدمت میکنند و خود را برای آنها در مخاطره قرار میدهند. همچنین جنسیتگرایی شدیدی در کتاب وجود دارد از نظر تقسیم وظایف دختر و پسر: کارهای یدی و شجاعانه با پسرها است و غذا پختن و توت کندن با دخترها. شیفتگی به ادامهی سلسلسهی پادشاهی هم یکی دیگر از ایدئولوژیهای انگلیسی مورد قبول این کتاب کودک و نوجوان است. به لحاظ روایی نیز کتاب بسیار ضعیف عمل میکند.
January 12, 2021
Di buku kedua ini, ternyata petualangan Empat Serangkai tak jauh berbeda dengan beberapa karya besar Enid Blyton yang lain: menghadapi penjahat. Sayangnya, dalam kasus ini tidak dibarengi dengan kesan yang sama. Dari segi penyelesaian masalah, cukup realistis di mana mereka terpaksa meminta bantuan orang dewasa. Tapi terlalu banyak hal yang dilakukan dengan jumlah halaman yang sedikit membuat terkesan sangat terburu-buru dan tidak bisa menikmati alur cerita. Bahasa yang digunakan juga kurang enak dibaca, membuat cepat lelah dan bosan. Sepertinya, bukan cuma saya yang merasa seperti itu.
Untuk saat ini, saya belum mau melanjutkan seri ini.
Untuk saat ini, saya belum mau melanjutkan seri ini.
August 13, 2017
One of the first books I ever read. I loved it then and I love it now.
I had a great emotional attachment to the Arnold children and Jack, so this may colour my review.
This is a book about a charming Cornwall cove, interesting old houses, caves and secret passages, exciting derring-do involving kidnappers, an exotic foreign prince, and children messing about in boats. What more can a child want?
The name "Spiggy" is a funny one, in several senses of the word and it is tempting to suggest that it is a corruption-by-time of the respectable Italian name Respighi.
I had a great emotional attachment to the Arnold children and Jack, so this may colour my review.
This is a book about a charming Cornwall cove, interesting old houses, caves and secret passages, exciting derring-do involving kidnappers, an exotic foreign prince, and children messing about in boats. What more can a child want?
The name "Spiggy" is a funny one, in several senses of the word and it is tempting to suggest that it is a corruption-by-time of the respectable Italian name Respighi.
February 6, 2018
The second book in the series was a delight to read. It was fun revisiting with Jack and Mike and Peggy and Nora. And then the surprise treat at the end... living on the secret island of the first book. That was a hoot rediscovering all their old haunts... nooks... and cranies. Loved the book... Enid Blyton truly was a great storyteller.
One thing though... some might not like the very racist comment of black faces. But if you take it as a good story to read... then you will not mind it... much!
One thing though... some might not like the very racist comment of black faces. But if you take it as a good story to read... then you will not mind it... much!
December 7, 2023
The second book in the Secret series, we have a new adventure of Jack, Mike, Nora and Peggy. It's not as unique as the first book (The Secret Island), where the children ran away from unkind relatives and had to live on their own on a island. Instead, is a more typical Blyton adventure, with old, mysterious houses, and secret passages long ago used by smugglers. It gets on more original territory when it turns ago the bad guys have kidnapped a young boy and are keeping him prisoner. Quite good, except that it reuses a number of common Blyton tropes.
January 3, 2020
The 4 children return for the sequel to ‘The Secret Island’ in this fun and action packed adventure story for children.
This time, the children are staying with a family friend for the summer but soon notice some strange goings on at the house across from them, could the new residents be smugglers? Are they hiding something in their big dark house?
I do love a bit of Enid Blyton and this book was no exception.
October 19, 2017
I read and reread this book as a child along with my older sister. When Mr10 turned 5 we began our own journey into the secret series and now we own and love them all. Fast forward and now Mr7 is enjoying a chapter each night. Sometimes it's very hard to stop after one chapter.. the danger, the mystery.. the adventure... so very well writing and warming... thoroughly recommend...
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