I'm back!
So, it's been a while since my last post, I took a Trixie break to read some other stuff. Also, this book bored me. Anyway, we now return you to your regular blog...
From the back of the book - ""Oh Trixie!" Honey's voice quavered as they looked around their room, once beautiful but now a shambles... "How awful," Trixie whispered. Honey was rummaging in a drawer. WHen she turned to face Trixie, her face was drained of color. "My necklace," she squeeked... "I meant to ask Anne to put it back in the safe this morning. But, oh, Trixie, I forgot, and now it's gone!..."
This time Honey inherits a necklace from an Aunt she never knew she had. But, oddly, it's a fake, a "paste copy". So the Wheelers hire Trixie and Honey to go to England and hunt down the family and it's connection to Shakespeare and to find out where the necklace came from.
Of course, the mystery gets solved, but unfortunately we never get to REALLY know about the true source of the necklace, the book finished before they find that out. Really the rest of the book the mystery takes a back seat to this author talking all about England and the sites. I think either this "Kathryn Kenny" was English or wanted to go there. It often read like touristy advertising and not a real novel.
I'm not even going to waste more time than I have to, this was definitely low in the Trixie list for me. Only Trixie, Honey, Jim and Mart are really in it, guided by Miss Trask, who, even after Honey is pick-pocketed, robbed and almost killed by bus, lets the girls head off on their own every few pages, some chaperone!
That's all I have to say really. Small wonder it took me this long to read it. next up, the Mystery at Saratoga. YAY! Regan stuff!
