Mysterious Benedict Society The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma, Book 3, (Paperback)

from kgriffith

Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance come to life once more in the third installment of the Mysterious Benedict Society series. Del Roy does a fair job of involving the listener through inflection and the occasional chuckle at the antics of the broad cast of characters, though his ability to voice...

from elenchus

Provides a clever outline of the original Prisoner's Dilemma, along with a twist on its solution / meaning given the four kids. Again the kids have a mission which necessitates they are separated from their elders, but this time Constance also is separated from the other three, leading to a motif...

from sweetiegherkin

Four precocious and adventurous children need to stay one step ahead of the evil Mr. Curtain who is perennially after them because of their knowledge of his evil invention known as the Whisperer. I unwittingly picked up the third (and apparently, final) book in the Benedict Society series, but it...

from BraveNewBks

Definitely my favorite of the series, maybe because it was the one that finally stopped telling us so much about the children's particular quirky personalities and just let then be who they are. As such, it seemed a little (but just a little) like a successor to the Lemony Snicket novels, and tha...

from ownlittleworld

We begin the tale in prison. Or something like it. Due to the fact that the children and their families are being sought after by the cruel Mr. Curtain, it has been necessary to keep them concealed as much as possible. But they haven't remained idle in the process. Mr. Benedict, their teacher and...