
Goldie's initial jealousy of Diane getting chummy with Chris causes her to start accumulating evidence that Chris is the music festival's saboteur, thus wasting time in spotting the real culprit, Miss Petty.Failed a Spot Check: Twice in Volume 4.

until his partner elbows him harshly to shut him up. Evil Gloating: When Goldie is cornered by two Russian spies in Volume 4, one of them can’t resist bragging to her about their nefarious plan for St.Engineered Public Confession: In Volume 4, Goldie lures Miss Petty into the music festival's sound testing room, letting Cheryl record her Just Between You and Me about causing the blackouts.Enemy Mine: The fourth arc ends with a Sequel Hook of Miss Petty in jail meeting Red Donahue and scheming a plan of revenge against Goldie.Dirty Communists: KGB spies are recurring villains in the series, particularly in the first and fourth arcs.They have a testy relationship, which comes to a head in the third arc where Red sabotages Sugar's races. Big Brother Bully: Red Donahue, Sugar Maple's older sister.Batman Gambit: Goldie's plan in Volume 4 to lure Soviets out in the open revolves around feeding their overconfidence, including her and her friends faking public spats so that the spies will think Goldie's all by herself.


The series has been published in 20 comic book issues note Issues #13-20 going directly to trade, and two prose novels by Lilliam Rivera. Using her sleuthing skills, talent for disguises, spunky kid charm, and network of clever and reliable friends, Goldie tackles all sorts of cases that come to the hotel, whether Russian spies looking to steal spacecraft secrets, to missing ex-astronauts with a grudge, or an allegedly haunted music festival. The titular Marigold "Goldie" Vance is a 16 year-old “assistant” Kid Detective, serving at her father’s hotel the Crossed Palms Resort in St. Goldie Vance is a comic book series written by Hope Larson and Jackie Ball, illustrated by Brittney Williams, Noah Hayes, and Elle Power, and published by Boom! Studios. From left to right: Sugar Maple, Sylvie Bell, Art Vance, Rob, Diane Kimura, Walter Tooey, Goldie, and Cheryl Labeaux.
