The Wheeler's large property includes an old abandoned Gatehouse that the girls and Bobby decide to explore.
Bobby rushes in the doorway before he can be stopped. He trips and lands on a sharp piece of glass that turns out to be a diamond. It's not even buried, it was just lying non the surface of the dirt floor.
Naturally Trixie speculates that jewel thieves dropped it here, and will be back for it. She wants to hold onto the diamond till they can figure out who the thieves are, and why they were here. Honey reluctantly agrees and says she has a safe place for it.
Suddenly both girls hear a rustling in the shrubbery outside the Gatehouse and as they run out to see who has been listening, the person gets away.
Trixie's brothers are back from camp, and they're all in for trying to solve the mystery as well, and capture the thieves. This is the first time we meet smart aleck Mart and cool headed Brian. They're perfect additions to the group we know of Trixie, Honey and Jim. Everyone brings something useful to the solving of mysteries.
Two suspicious new hires are watched carefully in case they're the thieves. All possible clues are examined. A club is formed and the Gatehouse is eyed as a possible club house.
I mostly enjoyed the introduction of the brothers to the group, and how easily everyone got along right away. The mystery of the jewel thieves was intriguing though one of the thieves gave himself away pretty quickly.
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