William,
My 8 year-old loves Basil of Baker Street. This series sounds
like her thing, and I'll have to track down a couple of them.
Thanks for the info.
Patrick http://hillbilliesandhitmen.blogspot.com
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, William Denton
<wtd@...> wrote:
>
> I happened upon an advance reading copy of THE
POSSUM ALWAYS RINGS
TWICE,
> by Bruce Hale, in the Chet Gecko series of
mysteries. The cover
says
> they're for people aged 8-12. I'd never heard of
this series
before, but
> the other titles include FAREWELL, MY LUNCHBAG ("If
danger is my
business,
> then dinner is my passion"); THE BIG NAP; THE MALTED
FALCON ("It
was tall,
> dark, and chocolatey--the stuff dreams are made
of"); TROUBLE IS
MY
> BEESWAX; and MURDER, MY TWEET.
>
> The first line of this one is "Down these mean
streets a gecko
must go."
> Chet's partner is a mockingbird named Natalie
Attired, and at the
start
> he's beaten up by a wolverine bully named Ben Dova.
He tells the
bully,
> "You're so dumb you put lipstick on your forehead to
make up your
mind."
>
> There are a books based on Sherlock Holmes aimed at
kids these
ages, like
> BASIL OF BAKER STREET, and I'm all for ones that'll
get them ready
for
> grown-up hardboiled books. Anyone on the list with
kids that age
who've
> read these?
>
> Bill
> --
> William Denton : Toronto, Canada :
www.miskatonic.org :
www.frbr.org
>
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