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Reviewed on October 1, 2014 | Grades 9 and Up
Gr 9 Up—Seventeen-year-old neighbors Rachel Watts and James Mycroft find the murdered body of a homeless man they know. Mycroft is convinced that there is more to the murder than the police believe and persuades Watts to help him investigate. This story is, in part, a homage to Sherlock Holmes and follows all the traditions of a whodunit. However, it's also a tale of a friendship and developing romance of two grieving teenagers. Rachel hates t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2014
In this present-day Watson-and-Holmes (Holmes being Mycroft) takeoff, country girl Rachel Watts and tortured soul James Mycroft solve th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
