The Case of the Nervous Newsboy

A group of 10-year-olds have their own detective agency and solve neighborhood mysteries. This time around the titular newsboy goes missing, and the police end up interviewing the kids because they were among the last to see him before he disappeared.

When a police lieutenant is dismissive of their offer of aid, Jack P. McGurk, the leader, decides to go around him and solve the case first.

The first half wasn't too bad, but the closer it got to its convoluted resolution, the more my interest flagged.

This is another old children's book that has been in my wife's or my family since the 1970s. It's book number four in a series with more than two dozen adventures, but it is the only book by the author we own, so it must not have had much show more appeal fifty years ago either. show less

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