Super Mysteries 1-4

#1 Baby-Sitters' Haunted House

Ghostwriter: Jeanne Betancourt
Main narrator: Claudia
Claudia has to write a composition because she failed English.
Mary Anne talks like a guide book.
The girls keep talking about a scream in the middle of the night- when did this happen?
Janine takes a sitting job at the Hobarts'.
Dawn was on a swim team in CA.
Mal and Jessi eat Claudia's Chuckle Rings. What are those?
Georgio kisses Claudia on the cheek. Their relationship is a little gross.
Mallory goes psycho at the Rosebud Cafe.
Sam rides a unicycle in the Celebrate America! parade and carries a sign.
The Coopers have a list of evil things to do, such as stealing Jason's baseball glove. Those fiends!
Mallory's favorite t-shirt is red and white striped with blue stars around the neck and sleeves.
This book has some really annoying characters in it- Lionel, Karen, Jill.

Ghostwriter: Nola Thacker
Main narrator: Kristy
The Mystery Notebook is born.
Abby sometimes jokes in Yiddish.
Sam is out dumping a girl.
Other book references: 7
Sergeant Tang!!
Kristy says Charlie's a good driver.
Mal and Jessi got cropped out of the picture for the pet-napping mystery. They were pissed.
Abby used to "ski [her] brains out" at Lake Placid every winter.
Mary Anne drapes Tigger over her shoulder.
The Kishi family phone now doesn't have an answering machine like it did in SM#1.
The Pikes get insulation.
Karl Tate has a mansion.
How does Astrid fight through a pet door for a cat? And how come none of the baby-sitters can fit through it? Idea from Jenna for the 1st question: Maybe the Tates got a really big pet door for when they pet-napped Cheryl.
Stacey always carries a spare case of insulin in her backpack.
Sam calls Stacey his "best girl friend."

Ghostwriter: Nola Thacker
Main narrator: Abby
Mal is obsessed with the Mystery Notebook.
Which is it: Agatha or Agnes Moorehouse?
The BSC wears weird Halloween costumes (Kristy wears a necklace of dog biscuits, Mal wears Abby's Day-Glo orange down vest)
"Rat man," said Cary.
Cary gets owned by Kristy and Alan.
Martha Kempner's slippers have high heels on them.

Ghostwriter: Nola Thacker
Stoneybrook is a mecca of mystery.
Dawn's in Stoneybrook.
Other book refernces: 7
More Sergeant Tang!
All the Pikes hold their breath by cemetaries.
Ethan has bleached his hair...ewww.
Ethan's mom is an artist.
Ethan's "hiding something in the closet," if you know what I mean.
Claudia says, "She's [the artist] subdued texture to the juxtoposition of elemental colors."
All about Hanukkah!
Tigger gets staring spells.
Stacey's apartment was built over a graveyard.
Stacey carries Life Savers...no honey packets? :(
Watson and Nannie and the Stevensons hired Mr. Nixon to help them garden.
Monday nights at the Pikes- leftovers and pizza. Sometimes they add the leftovers as pizza toppings. They also say grace.
Jessi tells Jackie there are no angels in church. Harsh.
Dawn wants pets, unlike Mrs. Porter.
Sharon has a new Outback.
Ethan has a psycho ex-girlfriend, Cybil.
The shepherds in Mallory's play are wearing bathrobes and thongs.