Five Go to Billycock Hill


Five Go to Billycock Hill is the sixteenth novel in the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton. It was first published in 1957.

Plot

The Five are camping again, this time on Billycock Hill, which is near the farm of Toby, a boy who loved jokes and pranks. When Toby's cousin Jeff, a Royal Air Force pilot, and Jeff’s friend Ray fly off late on a stormy night with the newest aeroplanes, the Five and Toby are stunned. The media claims Jeff and Ray have flown away and drowned by the sea. Could Jeff really be a spy? The Five and Toby disagree – Jeff had always seemed to be a trustworthy man. Toby is, at this moment, also grieved that his cousin Jeff should ever so horribly die in the sea and drown like that, and the Five spent the rest of the day comforting Toby. As everyone scrambled through all the information they had, meanwhile they explored Billycock Caves. To the "Six's" shock, Jeff and Ray were shoved into one of the coves inside the honeycomb of caves! The Five and Toby rescue them, and the book resolves with the police visiting.

Characters

The gamebook The Secret Airfield Game was based on this novel.