Kristy and the Cat Burglar
Hello! I'm a long time lurker of this community, and when I recently came into a box of Babysitters Club books, I had to make an account and join in the fun!
So for my first snark, I wanted to do one that hasn't been snarked yet. It came down to this and Abby in Wonderland, which is about Abby finding out that her grandmother might have cancer. My own grandfather was recently diagnosed with cancer, so I'm just not up to it right now...
Anyway, as a kid, I adored the Mystery series. I received a box set of the first four in the series sometime in the mid 90's, and was hooked. It was my first exposer to the Babysitters Club, save for a few Little Sisters books I had read before that. So they hold a very soft place in my heart.
Nowadays, I find that they are often... lacking. In any source of logic, sense, or suspense. They're also VERY snarkable.
Kristy and the Cat Burglar is the thirty-sixth and final Babysitters Club Mystery. I remember reading it as a kid, and I remember nothing about it, except that I liked it.
I'll start with the cover:
It's okay... Not a fan of the green and reddish brown, and Kristy kinda looks like a creepy porcelain doll, but other than that, it's okay.
Chapter 1:
Kristy is playing hide and seek with Karen and David Micheal in the backyard. While hiding from her brother, Kristy gives us the skinny on her life: Dad walked out, Mom married a millionaire with two kids of his own, they adopted a Vietnamese two year old in a totally legal and not at all shady adoption, and Nanny.
Suddenly Cary Retiln jumps out of nowhere, scaring the crap out of Kristy, who wonders what he's doing in her yard. He responds "I could ask you the same question", but Kristy's question is way more legit, since it's her backyard. Cary explains that he's been bird watching in the woods behind the mansion. I'm forced to wonder if he's been taking a leaf from the George McFly school of Birdwatching:
So Cary takes off, and Karen decides that she wants to go go exploring in the woods. They come to an old house, dubbed the "Spooky House" by the local kids, which looks abandoned, but Karen says that Hannie's dad says that someone lives there. In light of this information, Kristy, responsible babysitter that she is, decides to trespass.
They peer through the window, when they suddenly hear a gunshot, and suddenly sirens start going off. Gee, who would have thought that a millionaire in a giant mansion might have security?
Chapter 2:
What's this? No Babysitters Club meeting?
Kristy and the kids are approached by their friend, most patient police officer ever, Sgt. Johnson. He informs them that the mansion has been robbed, and that the culprit might be armed.
"So what? Everybody has arms!" Karen exclaims...
Dear Ellen Miles: That's not cute. It's incredibly annoying.
So Sgt. Johnson and his partner Officer Hopkins interrogate the security guard, who has just arrived on the scene. His name is Jack Fenton, and all I can picture is this:
Jack says that he was called away with a fake call that his wife was in the hospital, which kept him from his post. Sgt. Johnson says that HE received an anonymous tip that there would be a break in at the house. Kristy breaks in by telling us that Sgt. Johnson has the bluest eyes she's ever seen. Thank you Kristy, that was very necessary...
I'll be honest, this chapter is actually pretty unsnarkable, so I'll just abridge the rest:
- A safe was broken into, and some diamonds stolen.
- Some jerk off called Sgt. Winters shows up and is a complete ass to Sgt. Johnson.
- A picture of a red cat was painted on the mailbox. This is apparently the calling card of a very notorious thief, the imaginatively named Cat Burglar.
- Cary shows up again, reeking of Red Herring.
Chapter 3:
Aha! Club Meeting! Nothing terribly interesting this time around, not even a Claudia outfit, but Kristy does give us a few details of a case that each sitter solved. Poor Mallory only had one mystery book, so she's saddled with Mallory and the Ghost Cat. But that's a snark for another time. Nothing of note happens, except that Kristy informs the other baby sitters of the robbery, and Stacey gets a job sitting for Charlotte, which will set up our B plot for this book.
Thanks for reading! Tune in next time as we discuss red herrings, obvious villains, police corruption, intrigue, and honest to god 90's references.
So for my first snark, I wanted to do one that hasn't been snarked yet. It came down to this and Abby in Wonderland, which is about Abby finding out that her grandmother might have cancer. My own grandfather was recently diagnosed with cancer, so I'm just not up to it right now...
Anyway, as a kid, I adored the Mystery series. I received a box set of the first four in the series sometime in the mid 90's, and was hooked. It was my first exposer to the Babysitters Club, save for a few Little Sisters books I had read before that. So they hold a very soft place in my heart.
Nowadays, I find that they are often... lacking. In any source of logic, sense, or suspense. They're also VERY snarkable.
Kristy and the Cat Burglar is the thirty-sixth and final Babysitters Club Mystery. I remember reading it as a kid, and I remember nothing about it, except that I liked it.
I'll start with the cover:
It's okay... Not a fan of the green and reddish brown, and Kristy kinda looks like a creepy porcelain doll, but other than that, it's okay.
Chapter 1:
Kristy is playing hide and seek with Karen and David Micheal in the backyard. While hiding from her brother, Kristy gives us the skinny on her life: Dad walked out, Mom married a millionaire with two kids of his own, they adopted a Vietnamese two year old in a totally legal and not at all shady adoption, and Nanny.
Suddenly Cary Retiln jumps out of nowhere, scaring the crap out of Kristy, who wonders what he's doing in her yard. He responds "I could ask you the same question", but Kristy's question is way more legit, since it's her backyard. Cary explains that he's been bird watching in the woods behind the mansion. I'm forced to wonder if he's been taking a leaf from the George McFly school of Birdwatching:
So Cary takes off, and Karen decides that she wants to go go exploring in the woods. They come to an old house, dubbed the "Spooky House" by the local kids, which looks abandoned, but Karen says that Hannie's dad says that someone lives there. In light of this information, Kristy, responsible babysitter that she is, decides to trespass.
They peer through the window, when they suddenly hear a gunshot, and suddenly sirens start going off. Gee, who would have thought that a millionaire in a giant mansion might have security?
Chapter 2:
What's this? No Babysitters Club meeting?
Kristy and the kids are approached by their friend, most patient police officer ever, Sgt. Johnson. He informs them that the mansion has been robbed, and that the culprit might be armed.
"So what? Everybody has arms!" Karen exclaims...
Dear Ellen Miles: That's not cute. It's incredibly annoying.
So Sgt. Johnson and his partner Officer Hopkins interrogate the security guard, who has just arrived on the scene. His name is Jack Fenton, and all I can picture is this:
Jack says that he was called away with a fake call that his wife was in the hospital, which kept him from his post. Sgt. Johnson says that HE received an anonymous tip that there would be a break in at the house. Kristy breaks in by telling us that Sgt. Johnson has the bluest eyes she's ever seen. Thank you Kristy, that was very necessary...
I'll be honest, this chapter is actually pretty unsnarkable, so I'll just abridge the rest:
- A safe was broken into, and some diamonds stolen.
- Some jerk off called Sgt. Winters shows up and is a complete ass to Sgt. Johnson.
- A picture of a red cat was painted on the mailbox. This is apparently the calling card of a very notorious thief, the imaginatively named Cat Burglar.
- Cary shows up again, reeking of Red Herring.
Chapter 3:
Aha! Club Meeting! Nothing terribly interesting this time around, not even a Claudia outfit, but Kristy does give us a few details of a case that each sitter solved. Poor Mallory only had one mystery book, so she's saddled with Mallory and the Ghost Cat. But that's a snark for another time. Nothing of note happens, except that Kristy informs the other baby sitters of the robbery, and Stacey gets a job sitting for Charlotte, which will set up our B plot for this book.
Thanks for reading! Tune in next time as we discuss red herrings, obvious villains, police corruption, intrigue, and honest to god 90's references.