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At the beginning I really thought I was not going to like this book. To me, it was very much getting towards a fairy tale, with lost in the woods, a child who talked with animals, and a sister who seemed to have no compunction about scolding someone with hot soup, the fear of bears in the woods, and a hermit who made secret potions However, as it progressed it became clear that it was going to be an investigation by Bobby Owen into a missing husband, a robbery, and eventually a murder. I did fin
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Another clever instalment in the Bobby Owen series. A quest by Olive to find a chocolatier living in a remote forest leads to a search for a missing hermit, missing salesman as well as lost paintings and candelabra from the nearby manor house. This is one of those cases where the modern-day existence of DNA testing would resolve some of the mystery as to the family of the hermit, but in 1942, a question would remain. A constant feeling of dread hangs over Bobby in his quest to solve seemingly in
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The sergeant was obviously incredulous and inclined to suspect his superior of the unworthy action of pulling a subordinate’s leg. He admitted, however, that he had always considered art a rummy business, anyhow, and was obviously relieved when Bobby agreed with this dictum. Olive remarked that in the same article there had been a reference to what it called ‘The Diabolic Candelabra’, attributed to Benvenuto Cellini, and supposed to have disappeared about the same time, and when the sergeant und
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I left this unreviewed too long so have forgotten a lot. This was the first Bobby Owens mystery I read, and beginning with the search for a recipe for chocolates that taste extraordinary turns into a mystery involving an old hermit in the forest who has gone missing, two missing El Grecos, and a missing Candelabra which has diabolical heads on each branch. Another man from the village is also missing, while another who was seen at the hermit's hut is not traceable. With no bodies recovered, it i
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A very good Bobby Owen story though he doesn't have a boss to complain about now. Very atmospheric with the dense wood and mysterious characters. We also get to see a bit of Bobby and Olive's interactions as they adjust to marriage.
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