![]() ![]() So now it’s time for the gang, with Tim, a descendent of their original canine companion, to return to the Zoinx River Valley in Oregon, retrace their steps, and try to figure out, once and for all, what happened that summer. ![]() One member, Peter, the jock, got famous in Hollywood and died, suddenly, surprisingly, possibly a victim of the long-ago mystery. The BSDC never reformed after that summer, and the human members - Andy, the tomboy, Kerri, the bookworm, Nate, the nerd - have been haunted by the case ever since. ![]() That case saw the gang get headlines, and sent a man to jail for more than a decade, but it also split the group. And that’s really too bad Meddling Kids, the second English-language novel from the Barcelona-based Cantero, is a pop-culture gem, a hipster cartoon with surprising depths.Ĭantero largely avoids the pitfalls of nostalgia by setting Meddling Kids thirteen years after the kids of the Blyton Summer Detective Club solved their biggest, and final, case, the mystery of Deboen Mansion and the Sleepy Lake Monster. If you’re the kind of person for whom the phrase “I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids” doesn’t immediately elicit a smile - if not a full-blown flashback to Saturday mornings of cartoons and soggy cereal - you probably won’t see the appeal of the new novel from Edgar Cantero. ![]()
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