A review by octavia_cade
Caboose Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner

2.0

More and more these stories seem to be about Benny, with the rest of the family there as backdrop. He's marginally less annoying than usual in this one though, so that's something. Anyway, in this latest instalment, the most spoilt children in the world go on a caboose trip. It's a callback of sorts to the Boxcar, which was infinitely more charming, but this one has a clown, a talking horse, and a missing diamond necklace, hidden in said caboose. And all I can think is that the police who searched the caboose looking for said necklace must have been the laziest detectives ever, because not only did they miss the postcard tacked up on a wall (which gave the clue to the location of the necklace), they also missed the necklace itself, which was hidden in the most obvious place ever. Still, I suppose you need an idiot plot if you want to make Benny look clever...