At the 2nd hand bookstore yesterday I was lucky enough to find 4 junior mystery books from 1953-1962 in really good condition. A Nancy Drew, the 1st Happy Hollisters and another in the series, and an author I hadn't seen before. The only 1 of these I might have read as a kid would be the Nancy Drew, it seemed vaguely familiar.
In any case, for less than $10 I'm going to leave modern gory murder mysteries behind for awhile and enjoy these vintage stories of department store burglary, kidnapping without violence, hidden money, stolen gems, and a secret code from the Revolutionary War.