The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat (1944)

作者: 伊妮·布来敦
首版: 1944 年
国家/地区: 英国
Open Library: 26 个版本

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The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat (1944) is the second in the Five Find-Outers series of children's mystery novels by Enid Blyton. It was published by Methuen and Co Ltd and follows the first book in the series, The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage. It tells of a stolen cat the group of children work to find.

Plot

Luke, a friend of the Five Find-Outers, is working in Lady Candling's garden when her valuable Siamese cat is stolen. The Five Find-Outers and Dog work to solve the case.

Next door to Pip and Bets Hilton lives Lady Candling, whose prize cat, Dark Queen (a valuable Siamese), disappears under the nose of Luke, the gardener's help and a friend of the Find-Outers. Mr Tupping, (the gardener), is a nasty character who the children immediately decide could be the thief, but he wasn't in the area when Dark Queen was stolen. All the evidence points to poor Luke, so the Find-Outers investigate, not believing he is the thief.

There are other possible suspects on Lady Candling's staff, such as Miss Harmer the cat handler and Miss Trimble, who takes care of the roses. Mr Tupping is still the prime suspect though and it turns out that he stole Dark Queen in the morning, then painted a small patch of cream-colored paint to another cat's tail to disguise it as Dark Queen, who had a distinctive cream patch on its tail. Then he made Luke work beside the cage all day, so that he would be the obvious suspect. In the afternoon, Mr Tupping rubbed the paint off the bogus cat's tail and then announced Dark Queen was gone. Mr Tupping is finally caught and it turns out he has previously been involved with animal stealing.