A review by goldenbooksgirl
The Vanishing Dragon by Robert J. Harris

4.0

In his 2nd adventure, we follow Artie and his loyal best friend Ham as they are hired by a magician, whose huge comeback show has been plagued by constant disasters which could prove very dangerous, to solve this mystery and save the show. Artie and Ham’s friendship is lovely, and I enjoyed the banter bewteen them lots. In addition, I really liked the addition of Rowena to their team in this book, and am very much hoping she might be a permanent main character going forward. The colourful range of suspects provided plenty of entertainment, and provided a feeling akin to that of a classic mystery such as Enid Bylton’s Five Find-Outers. The culprit and their reason for commiting the crime came as a complete shock, yet still made sense, and overall I had a lot of fun with this and will pick up the next book.4/5