Original French Famous Five Series
The original French Famous Five series by Claude Voilier was published by Bibliothèque Rose, a division of the giant French publishing house Hachette. Jean Sidobre illustrated the first 12 as well as the penultimate volume. Claude Pascal illustrated a further seven. Buci illustrated Les Cinq contre les fantômes and Anne-Claude Martin illustrated Les Cinq en Amazonie and Les Cinq contre le loup-garou.
In the original hardback editions, the books do not have chapters, and every second page has a comic strip-style illustration that sums up the main action in the text on the opposite page. The comics are one to three panels in length. Most of these illustrations are in black and white, but every so often there is a single-panel full-page colour illustration. However, later paperback editions published in the 1990s dispense with the comics and instead use black-and-white illustrations by Anne Bozellec. These illustrations only appear at intervals rather than on every second page. The paperback editions are also divided into chapters.
A full list of the original French series follows below:
1. Les Cinq sont les plus forts (1971; English title: The Famous Five and the Mystery of the Emeralds)
2. Les Cinq au bal des espions (1971; English title: The Famous Five in Fancy Dress)
3. Le Marquis appelle les Cinq (1972; English title: The Famous Five and the Stately Homes Gang)
4. Les Cinq au Cap des tempêtes (1972; English title: The Famous Five and the Missing Cheetah)
5. Les Cinq à la Télévision (1973; English title: The Famous Five Go on Television)
6. Les Cinq et les pirates du ciel (1973; English title: The Famous Five and the Hijackers)
7. Les Cinq contre le masque noir (1974; English title: The Famous Five Versus the Black Mask)
8. Les Cinq et le galion d'or (1974; English title: The Famous Five and the Golden Galleon)
9. Les Cinq font de la brocante (1975; English title: The Famous Five and the Inca God)
10. Les Cinq se mettent en quatre (1975; English title: The Famous Five and the Pink Pearls)
11. Les Cinq dans la cité secrète (1976; English title: The Famous Five and the Secret of the Caves)
12. La fortune sourit aux Cinq (1976; English title: The Famous Five and the Cavalier's Treasure)
13. Les Cinq et le rayon Z (1977; English title: The Famous Five and the Z-Rays)
14. Les Cinq vendent la peau de l'ours (1977; English title: The Famous Five and the Blue Bear Mystery)
15. Les Cinq aux rendez-vous du diable (1978; English title: The Famous Five in Deadly Danger)
16. Du neuf pour les Cinq (1978; English title: The Famous Five and the Strange Legacy)
17. Les Cinq et le trésor de Roquépine (1979; English title: The Famous Five and the Knights' Treasure)
18. Les Cinq et le diamant bleu (1979; reprinted in 1980 as Les Cinq et le rubis d'Akbar; never translated into English)
19. Les Cinq jouent serré (1980; English title: The Famous Five and the Strange Scientist)
20. Les Cinq en croisière (1980; never translated into English)
21. Les Cinq contre les fantômes (1981; never translated into English)
22. Les Cinq en Amazonie (1983; never translated into English)
23. Les Cinq et le trésor du pirate (1984; never translated into English)
24. Les Cinq contre le loup-garou (1985; never translated into English)
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