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Novel Review: Meddling Kids

“Gentlemen. I staged a haunting in an old mansion and dressed myself as a giant salamander to scare people away. I was captured by four teenagers and a Weimaraner. And I am sixty. Do you seriously believe I pose a threat to anyone?”

Edgar Cantero revisits the teen detective genre, as the damaged, now-adult members of the Blyton Summer Detective Club, and their dog’s grandson, return to face the thing they’d left undone. Because that wasn’t just Old Man Wickley in a costume that last summer, years ago; something stirs beneath the earth, a chthonic thing filled with evil intention, and it might get away with it, too, despite the best effort of these young meddlers.

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