'The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat' by Enid Blyton takes place in the quaint neighborhood of Pip and Bets Hilton, where a feline calamity unfolds when Lady Candling's prized Siamese cat, Dark Queen, mysteriously disappears. Suspicion falls upon Mr Tupping, the ill-tempered gardener, despite his absence during the cat's vanishing act. The keen young sleuths, the Five Find-Outers, refuse to believe that Luke, Mr Tupping's helper, is the true culprit, even though the evidence seems to point in his direction.