The Yellow Phantom

The Yellow Phantom by Margaret Sutton (1933) This is the 6th Judy Bolton mystery, and the first in which she ventures to New York City (and she has a much better time of it than the Hardy Boys, who a couple of years earlier, stumbled into NYC like a couple of hayseeds, got pick-pocketed and had to sleep in Central Park). Judy, Pauline, and Irene take a bus, and take Blackberry, Judy’s cat along! They meet a novelist on the bus, get embroiled in some odd business right off the bat, and stay at Dr. Faulkner’s swank Gramercy Park townhouse. In order to get to the bottom of the new mystery, Judy gets a job with an odd literary agent who enjoys a little “medicine,” gets involved with poets, and eventually ventures deep into Brooklyn. This is a pretty crazy story, by the end of it, but I won’t give any more away. It’s not my favorite of the Judy Bolton books I’ve read, but it’s good—and like I said before—it’s much better if you read the Judy Bolton books in order, from number one—as it is, so far at least, like one continuous story. Was there ever a Judy Bolton movie or TV series? There should have been!