The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat, published 1949, is the seventh novel in the Five Find-Outers’Or mystery’ series written by Enid Blyton.
A theatre safe is rifled – and the main suspect is Boysie the Pantomime Cat and his friend Zoe. The five find-outers and dog are on the track – with the help of PC Pippin, who is standing in for Mr Goon. Despite all the false clues the find-outers have planted to throw the police off the scent, they finally discover the perpetrator.
Mr Goon is off on holiday and P.C. Pippin is his replacement until he returns. The Find-Outers decide to have a little fun with this new P.C. and so make up a little mystery for him. But the clues they leave put P.C. Pippin right at the forefront of a real mystery, when he finds the manager of the Little Theatre unconscious and slumped over his desk, and the safe open and empty. The Find-Outers are soon on the case, interviewing suspects and looking for clues, but sadly for them, P.C. Goon returns to Peterswood and takes over the case from Pippin, and he is convinced that the Pantomime Cat is guilty of the crime. The Find-Outers have other ideas and set about trying to solve this mystery as quickly as possible.
