New Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley #31: The Case of the Giggling Ghost: (The Case of the Giggling Ghost)

I love this book, Marykate and Ashely think that a ghost is in a haunted house because they hear giggling, there friend Tim is missing, and there friend Princess Patty has lost her goldfish. Can they find out whos doing it? I love these books I have read all of them and I like this the best! I like the New Advetures of Marykate And Ashely more then Two of a kind. ( 8-12)

Ashely and Marykate are twin detectives and they run the olsen and Olsen Detective Agency in there attic. Ashely is very loical but marykate always likes to trust her feelings.At the Halloween Carnival the prizes are missing and Matykate and Ashely wiith there friends Patty Eric Tim and Rachel hear spooky giggling all around the carnival. When they go into the Haunted House there best friend Tim disappears ! Marykate and Ashely need to find out whos Haunting the Halloween carnival before halloween!

This is a fantastic read! Where most MK+A detective stories leave the reader wanting more The Case of the Giggling Ghost comes through big time! In my past experience with novels featuring the adorable twin gumshoes (namely The Case of the Missing Dong and Who Snatched the Cat?) I have been remiss to assert the title of masterpiece for two reasons 1: "Tensions" between the twins that, while sometimes alluded to in metaphor, lurk between the lines and suggest that the girls have not yet reached an full awareness of what it means to touch or be touched, and 2: Flimsy plot construction that, for the most part, centers around the solving of an external crisis that the reader half-heartedly endures. The Case of the Giggling Ghost resolves these issues in one brilliant stroke. The twins finally reach a level of maturity that allows them to envision themselves as more than asexual detective stereotypes. The "giggling ghost" in the story is an allusion to strange new sensations arising in the twins (owing an obvious debt to Baudrillard's "spontaneous laughter of the soul") which cause them to probe the nature of thier relationship. Using the wisdom they have aquired in solving past mysteries the girls search thier bodies for "clues". The internal conflict is alleviated (or solved) when the twins realize that the "giggling ghost" can only be silenced by pure unmediated "bottom-to-bottom" contact with eachother. So, if you love MK+A or are a first time reader this is definately worth your time and money.