Just reread this childhood favourite about a Toronto boarding school to my daughter and the plot turns out to revolve around an insider trading scheme tied to a silver mining stock being run out of the dorms.
There’s also a moment in the book where the boys are fighting over a copy of the Financial Post, which means, canonically speaking, Bruno and Boots read Barry Critchley.
@richardwarnica Did your daughter like it? I was obsessed with his books, and spoke to him a few years ago, but haven't tried them out on the kids. hazlitt.net/longreads/low-…
@richardwarnica I remember reading the whole series! The cover designs were a lot newer on my editions though, made them look way older lol
@richardwarnica So…they made a movie. youtu.be/RQzpqiNZl7c?fe…
@richardwarnica Didn’t Korman write these when he was in high school?
@richardwarnica two books later, they manipulate a school administrator into marrying a former drill sergeant by getting them both drunk
@richardwarnica Boots is serving a life sentence. It’s very sad.
@richardwarnica Hard to get more Canadian than people who went to private school in Ontario engaging in white collar crime.