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 \nIt's just that I don't know which one I am.When I was good,I was Little Jim.When I didbad things—well,sometimes I was Bill Collinsor even mischievous Poetry.  \nYou see,I am the daughter of Paul Hutchens,and I spent many an hour listening to him readhis manuscript as far as he had written it thatparticular day.I went along to the north woodsof Minnesota,to Colorado,and to the variousother places he would go to find something dif-ferent for the Gang to do.  \nNow the years have passed—more than fifty,actually.My father is in heaven,but the Ganggoes on.All thirty-six books are still in print andnow are being updated for today's readers withinput from my five children,who also span thedecades from the'50s to the'70s.  \nThe real Sugar Creek is in Indiana,and myfather and his six brothers were the originalGang.But the idea of the books and their min-istry were and are the Lord's.It is He who keepsthe Gang going.PAULINE HUTCHENS WILSON  \nThe Sugar Creek GangSeries:  \n1 The Swamp.Robber2 The Killer Bear3 The Winter Rescue4 The Lost Campers  \n5 The Chicago Adventure6 The Secret Hideout7 The Mystery Cave8 Palm Tree Manhunt9 One Stormy Day10 The Mystery Thief11 Teacher Trouble12 Screams in the Night13 The Indian Cemetery14 The Treasure Hunt15 Thousand Dollar Fish16 The Haunted House17 Lost in the Blizzard18 On the Mexican Border19 The Green Tent Mystery20 The Bull Fighter21 The Timber Wolf22 Western Adventure23 The Killer Cat  \n24 The Colorado Kidnapping25 The Ghost Dog  \n26 The White Boat Rescue27 The Brown Box Mystery28 The Watermelon Mystery29 The Trapline Thief30 The Blue Cow  \n31 Treehouse Mystery32 The Cemetery Vandals33 The Battle of the Bees34 Locked in the Attic35 Runaway Rescue36 The Case of Missing Calf  \n1  \nTt was one of the hottest,laziest summer after-Inoons I'd ever seen or felt--especially everfelt—when the mystery of the howling dog inthe Sugar Creek swamp began to write itself inmy mind.  \nI was dozing in the dappled shade of thebeechnut tree near the Black Widow Stump atthe time.Poetry,my almost best friend,wassprawled out beside me.The two of us werewaiting for the rest of the gang to come for oneof the most important gang meetings we everhad.  \nOf course,I didn't have any idea how im-portant our meeting was going to be or whatexciting and even dangerous experiences wewere going to stumble onto that afternoon,or Iwouldn't have been so lazy and sleepy.  \nUp to now,every time I'd dozed off,mychubby mischievous-minded friend had said ordone something to jar me out of my dream-world into the sizzling hot afternoon that wasmaking me so sleepy in the first place.  \nAs you maybe remember,the beechnut treewe were lying in the shade of is just west of theBlack Widow Stump,where we have so many ofour gang meetings.That stump was the mosti","cbCaiuwIci8GODAB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuwIci8GODAB","pdf",3462165,132,"English","# Preface\n## Series overview\n## Opening mystery narrative","[{\"question\":\"Who wrote the preface and what is her connection to the Sugar Creek Gang?\",\"answer\":\"The preface is by Pauline Hutchens Wilson, daughter of Paul Hutchens. 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