The whole way through The Red Trailer Mystery I was impatient with the whole secrecy surrounding the red trailer. It made me realise that I read my Trixie’s over and over again not for the mysteries or the crime solving, but for the connections, the friendships and burgeoning romances of the main characters. We didn’t meet any new characters that would continue on with us, except for a brief mention of Mr Lynch and his family of five children. This story didn’t really advance our understanding of Trixie and Honey. There wasn’t enough relationship stuff going on for me. The Red Trailer Mystery was basically about Trixie and Honey. When I eventually found #2 and read it, it didn’t stand a chance of living up to the high emotional level of reunion that I had imagined all on my own. As a result, I reread #1 and #3 time and time again and basically made up my own story about how Trixie and Honey found Jim after he ran away again. I always thought that #2 The Red Trailer Mystery was not one of my popular Trixie rereads simply because it took me ages to actually find it way back when. However I was curious to remind myself why it was that I reread some of the Trixie’s many more times than some of the others. I do not intend to reread and review the entire Trixie Belden series of 39 books.
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