While on vacation at their aunt and uncle's Mexico plantation, cousins Judy and Susanne find themselves entrusted with a key to a valuable ancient artifact. The plantation soon becomes a hotbed of crime as the key is stolen, all of Susanne's jewelry is stolen, the Jade idol is stolen, Rosetta the maid is shot, and strange ghosts even begin to appear. Suspicion lays mainly on Phil, a young man who befriends the girls and disappears as soon as the Jade idol is gone. However there is no short supply of suspicious person around the plantation.
- Judy and Susanne are 17 but they act like 12-year-olds. They're just plain stupid. They talk so openly about having the key and where they're going to hide it that it would have been more surprising if it wasn't stolen. They also act very carelessly and put themselves in dangerous situations, then when Colonel Thompson scolds them for it they have hissy fits saying "he's not the boss of us!".
- Rosetta is dying of a bullet wound and they don't get a doctor because the closest one is fifty miles away. Why do they not consider a doctor just cause of that? There's plenty of horses to ride to a doctor on.
After doing some research I've learned that with one horse they could have covered about 40 miles in one day meaning they could have had a doctor there in tree days max and that's if the doctor did not have a car. However if they took multiple horses, which the plantation had, and switch between them on the ride then they could have rode the 100 mile round trip in one day.
- I felt like the ending was a little strange and not well thought out. There's a culprit who was a totally surprise which is always nice and then one who was really obvious from the first sentence they're mentioned in.
- Why doesn't the uncle come back in the end?
I wrote this book review in 2017 but after a recent re-reading I found that my thoughts were more or less the same. I enjoyed the book less this time around and found it a bit boring and drawn out.
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