Enid Blyton: The Mystery Of The Strange Bundle

All the Five Find-Outers have had flu this Christmas holiday, so it doesn t seem as if anything exciting could happen. But then a strange robbery, where nothing seems to have been taken, occurs. Mr Fellows, whose house was robbed, seems to have run out in the night and thrown a bundle into the river. A man with a scarred face is seen poking in the river and the children come across some strangely small children s clothes. It turns out the clothes belong to a ventriloquist's dummy and the ventriloquist, who Mr Fellows assisted, was working for the secret service. An important message is hidden in the clothes but the scarred man has stolen them. All but the one most important item a shoe with a false heel containing the message, that Buster the dog had kept to gnaw.