A review by bargainsleuth
The Secret of Red Gate Farm by Carolyn Keene

4.0

I liked the Revised Text of this book rather than the Original Text. It's the same story, but the rewrite is better. The random happenings in the OT aren't nearly so random in the RT, and there is more back story and Nancy finding clues instead of just stumbling upon them. Also, as with most of the RT's, Chief McGinnis takes her seriously (unlike the unhelpful cops in all of the OTs), although I wonder how big his jurisdiction is since the girls rode almost 6 hours to get to Red Gate Farm. The updated texts always got rid of racial stereotypes and guns of any kind, but the RT still has fat-shaming of Bess and in this book, the bad guys' sexism is on full display.