Looking down the past few posts on here and it seems I've spelled out TMNT in the titles. Total accident, but made me chuckle for a bit. One for the turtles fans.
Anyway back to the main topic, we have a new book for you all typed up for you. It's The Secret Panel one of those that have a condensed version as a revised edition. Which means every other sentence is altered to within an inch of its life. We still have work to do on this edition but the original is already done. Both will be up when they're done.
The plot to this is that the boys have picked up a man calling himself John Mead, who has a strange mansion out of town with concealed locks. A bunch of crooks have settled on using the place as a hideout and when one of their crew gets shot, they kidnap an old friend of Laura Hardy to take care of him.
Depending on the story, these crooks are targeting museums (original) or electrical warehouses (remake) and bypassing all locks and alarms in the building.
Chet is sold a lemon of a boat that was festering away in the Mead mansion boathouse. As a subplot and in the original book there is interest in a mini sub which feels more like it should be in the remakes rather than the original.
Lastly there is a locksmith robbing his victims while installing new locks on their property. The original has a lame premise about rare locks but the remake nails it with some antiquities and Mr. Hardy's list of fingerprints on the case.
All in all the original stands up and the remake, though condensed actually has a few areas where it improves on the original. Chet actually has a girlfriend of sorts in the remake, she's called Helen Osbourne and, in the original is more of a pity date, out of convenience, whereas in the remake, she goes to the cinema and a strange chemist shop / diner for sandwiches along with his sister, Iola and Callie Shaw.
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