The Third Grade Detectives, distressed at rumors that their teacher Mr. Merlin and their friend Dr. Smiley are leaving town, decide they must carry on and solve the mystery of who robbed Pops Verner, the night watchman at the department store.
While working as a reporter during her summer vacation in 1935, Kit uncovers a mystery at the Cincinnati Zoo involving suspected break-ins at the monkey house.
from the tattered casebook of Chet Gecko, private eye
Hale, Bruce
2001
When fourth-grade private eye Chet Gecko is called to catch someone who is stealing food from the school cafeteria, he finds himself framed for the crime.
Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro, a Scottish settler and weaver's apprentice on the North Carolina frontier in 1775, must find out who is betraying her Loyalist family during the months before the start of the Revolutionary War.
