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The Red Trailer Mystery
Children's fiction
The Red Trailer Mystery
Book 2 of the Trixie Belden series
272 pages · First published 1950
Trixie Belden and Honey Wheeler become suspicious when a red trailer and the people connected with it appear near Sleepyside under puzzling circumstances. Their curiosity leads them into a case involving strangers whose explanations do not quite fit the evidence. The girls’ growing friendship and willingness to investigate together deepen the detective partnership established in the earlier books. Julie Campbell’s Trixie Belden mystery combines camping or roadside adventure with family-friendly suspense and the series’ characteristic belief that teenagers sometimes notice what adults dismiss.
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Runaway teen/search for a missing heir; criminals or suspicious strangers; trailer-camp investigation; travel danger and child-sized mystery suspense.
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