Well Done Secret Seven

Author:          Enid Blyton
First edition: 1951
Illustrator:    George Brook
Category:      Secret Seven
Genre:           Mystery/Adventure
Type:             Novels/Novelettes
Book no:        03



Review by Dennis Worley

The third book starts with Janet late for a meeting because she has mislaid her badge, and she can't go without it because Peter is 'awfully strict about badges'. She arrives late and this time she is the guilty one who shouts out the password. That's three occurrences in three books! Peter frowns and then looks to see if she has her badge on as he had made up his mind not to allow her in if she hadn't found it. He certainly runs a tight ship!

They decide to find a new cooler meeting place because of the hot weather and find a tree in a wood and make a tree house. Pam suggests that they carve S.S. in the trunk, but Peter is having none of it. "My father says that scribbling on walls and pavements and carving on trees is only done by idiots. And if anyone in the Secret Seven wants to be an idiot he can jolly well get out." So he is certainly doesn't mind what he says and has no favourites. It's almost as if the other six are not really close friends of his. He is just their leader and he doesn't mind telling them off and telling them what to do. A bit later Pam is in trouble again. She almost gets sacked because she squeals at an inopportune moment.

Susie is not in this one, but she does get mentioned when Peter warns Jack not to mention the tree house to 'that awful sister of yours'. That's the way they usually refer to her.

That night Colin suddenly remembers that he has left his book on ships in the tree house and so a night adventure is called for. He decides to take Peter with him and wakes him up in the time-honoured way by throwing pebbles through is window and manages to hit Peter on the cheek. So Peter awakes in a bad mood, but forgets this when Colin explains. The story develops quickly from there and in the end Pam and Barbara come in for some praise from Peter, so he is human after all! Interestingly, Pam says that she notices car numbers because she wants to see if she can spot a 'Z' one day. That's the sort of thing the boys would normally be interested in, I would have thought.



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