SuitabookThe Sign of the Crooked Arrow
Leslie McFarlane
- Reading
- Try reading a section at a time and pause after each new clue or change of problem; invite the reader to predict what might connect the two mysteries.
- Themes
- Criminal wrongdoing and investigation: A gang is responsible for jewellery-store holdups and troubles at the ranch; the young detectives help law-enforcement officers bring the gang down. The overview frames the gang as crooked and its actions as wrongdoing, with the investigation ending in the gang's defeat.
- Risk during an investigation: Cowboys disappear from the ranch, which is described as facing financial ruin; the detectives encounter grave danger before resolving the case. The overview establishes danger and hardship, but does not reveal how frightening or emotionally weighty these events feel in the story.
- Worth knowing
- The plot includes jewellery-store holdups, repeated disappearances of cowboys, financial trouble and grave danger to the young detectives; the degree of detail is not clear.