Five Find-Outers

For Enid Blyton's other "Five" book series, see The Famous Five (series).
Five Find-Outers

Cover of The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat
Author Enid Blyton
Country United Kingdom
Genre Children's literature, mystery, adventure
Published 1943–1961
No. of books 15

The Five Find-Outers, also known as the Five Find-Outers and Dog, is a series of children's mystery books written by Enid Blyton and first published between 1943 and 1961. Set in the fictitious village of Peterswood based on Bourne End, close to Marlow, Buckinghamshire, the children Larry (Laurence Daykin), Fatty (Frederick Trotteville), Pip (Philip Hilton), Daisy (Margaret Daykin), Bets (Elizabeth Hilton) and Buster, Fatty's dog, encounter a mystery almost every school holiday, always solving the puzzle before Mr Goon, the unpleasant village policeman, much to his annoyance.

Characters

The Five Find-Outers and Dog

Police Force

Minor characters

Timeline

At the beginning of the series Larry is 13, Fatty, Pip and Daisy are 12, while Bets is 8. Bets goes to day school, whereas all the others go to boarding school, which Bets really does not like because the others are friends at school and she only sees them at the holidays. The series takes place in successive school holidays, beginning with the Easter holidays and cycling through the summer and Christmas holidays. During each holiday the children solve a mystery – until The Mystery of the Invisible Thief (summer holidays), after which there is a break until the next summer holidays in which they solve "The Mystery of the Vanished Prince".

Novels

The 15 books in the series are:

  1. The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage (1943)
  2. The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat (1944)
  3. The Mystery of the Secret Room (1945)
  4. The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters (1946)
  5. The Mystery of the Missing Necklace (1947)
  6. The Mystery of the Hidden House (1948)
  7. The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat (1949)
  8. The Mystery of the Invisible Thief (1950)
  9. The Mystery of the Vanished Prince (1951)
  10. The Mystery of the Strange Bundle (1952)
  11. The Mystery of Holly Lane (1953)
  12. The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage (1954)
  13. The Mystery of the Missing Man (1956)
  14. The Mystery of the Strange Messages (1957)
  15. The Mystery of Banshee Towers (1961)

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