THE QUESTION OF THE PAINTED CAVE

by Winifred Mantle ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 14, 1966

The answer is provided by the Lester and Westcott children in their fourth and, according to the publishers, last mystery/adventure. This one puts into action Julia Westcott (she's fifteen now) with some assistance from Ian and Norman Lester, and like the others (The Hiding Place, Tinker's Castle. The Chateau Holiday) there is beautiful scenery (the Pyrenees), with an antique and aesthetic attraction (a cave filled with prehistoric art), a handsomely sinister opponent (Gaston de Villamin, an impoverished count, openly enthusiastic about girls and secretly enthusiastic about primitive art). And also like them, the story is motivated mainly by melodrama. If the villainy here is by no means as exaggerated and the action more reasonable, it is only because the story is a little less encompassing. The groups of children that have been used to solve the mysteries have always been very well drawn, but the readers who have grown up along with the Westcotts and Lesters, they may have become tiresome.

Pub Date: March 14, 1966

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart & Winston

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1966

Categories: FICTION