2025 Nostalgia Re-readathon | BSC Super Mystery #3: Baby-sitters' Fright Night

On a school trip to study history in spooky Salem, Massachusetts, Kristy, Abby, Mallory, Stacey, and Mary Anne find a mystery instead: a famous diamond, the Witch's Eye, is stolen from a local museum. The Baby-sitters set out to investigate, but someone seems determined to stop them. Stacey's room is ransacked. Abby is followed. And then Kristy disappears!

Abby's sure the BSC is cursed. And all the Baby-sitters agree: Whther or not the danger is supernatural, it's definitely real. Will they find Kristy, and the thief, before it's too late?

We wrap up this year's nostalgia re-readathon with another BSC Super Mystery, but unlike last year's book, I have no real recollection of this one. I'm sure I've read it before, even though it's post-#100 in the regular series and thus, after I stopped reading the series originally. I still have a hard time with considering the Abby years as real BSC canon, because so much is different, 10 years and 100 books in. We're fast approaching the one-note personality trait stage, for one thing. And, well, it just isn't the same without Dawn.

( Halloween in Salem )

The main mystery was pretty dumb, but the subplot was cute and I'm always here for Cary Retlin getting a taste of his own medicine. Late series BSC books will never be my favorites, but I think this was a great way to end our re-readathon this year. I'm already looking forward to next year! :)