Five Go to Mystery Moor by Enid Blyton - Review

I recently got a collection of three Famous Five books for 99p on Kindle because I was feeling kind of nostalgic I guess. I read a lot of the Famous Five books when I was a kid, but I didn't remember this one. I had a bunch with this cover, though, that were borrowed off my uncle's family and which probably did the rounds among a bunch of us in the family when we were younger. This one was probably there, but I have totally forgotten it.

So, Anne and George are spending their holiday at a riding school with a bunch of younger children and a girl called Henrietta, who like George, prefers to be called Henry and dress as a boy. George can't stand her, but Anne basically thinks she's fine. I can't remember the exact circumstances but obviously Julian and Dick turn up too. They're also on holiday and they have to sleep in the stables because there's no room for them in the house. They of course think this is great japes, though. 

Meanwhile, a local Gypsy boy called Sniffer has brought his horse to the school for some treatment. He has a dog, Liz, who Timmy is very excited to meet. In my issue of the book the word Gypsy had been changed to the word 'traveller' which is not exactly the same thing, but never mind, and it did leave to some confusing sentences, but I do understand that it was probably done to modernise the text for a book that is over seventy years old. 

Sniffer's dad wants the horse back because the group needs to move to the middle of the moor. He gets very angry when he isn't allowed because the horse is still injured. Julian has a proper go at him, because of course, he is posh and middle class and the man isn't, so he even as a child has the right to speak to this man horribly! I really didn't like this but it was something I picked up on last year when I read Five on a Hike Together. These children really are incredibly irritating at times. 

Anyway, the Five decide to go on a camping trip to the moor together, because they just can't leave things be, and they end up finding a smuggling racket involving the travellers. Of course. I did like the ending though, with Henry coming into her own. This was a quick read of course and I just thought it was fun. Four out of five for nostalgia.