The Treasure of Dead Man's Lane and Other Case Files: Saxby Smart, Private Detective: Book 2

by Simon Cheshire, R.W. Alley (Illustrator)

Overview

Put on your detective hat . . . Take out your magnifying glass. The Saxby Smart series lets readers solve the case!

Using wit, logic, and the help of his friends, young detective Saxby Smart is back to work, recovering a valuable comic book, searching for hidden treasure, and keeping intruders out of the neighborhood. Saxby records the facts for three new cases in his notebook, laying out all the clues readers need to solve the mysteries on their own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312674342
Publisher:	Square Fish
Publication date:	11/22/2011
Series:	Saxby Smart, Private Detective Series , #2
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	740L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

About the Author

Simon Cheshire, of Warwick, England, published his first book in the U.K. in 1997. Since then, his books have been published in many languages worldwide.

Best known for illustrating the Paddington Bear series, R. W. Alley has illustrated more than seventy books, including There's A Wolf At The Door, written by his wife, Zoë. He lives in Barrington, Rhode Island.

Editorial Reviews

Outstanding fare for young armchair Sherlocks.” —Booklist, Starred Review

“The cases are timely and twisting enough to keep the light bulb bright in the young sleuth's mind.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Saxby will appeal to mystery fanatics and fans of Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown.” —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

Gr 4–6—With three new cases, Saxby proves to be the go-to kid for solving mysteries. The boy relies heavily on the power of observation and drawing logical conclusions to find a missing comic worth $100,000 and a treasure in an old house that's about to be demolished and discover who has broken into six children's houses, all in the same teacher's classroom. His faithful friends Izzy and Muddy are wonderful sidekicks who go beyond Saxby's observations with outside investigation and research. The cases can be solved by readers, and the questions posed throughout the text make sure that they are following the clues. Expressive black-and-white cartoons are scattered throughout. Saxby will appeal to mystery fanatics and fans of Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Encyclopedia Brown.—Delia Carruthers, Roxbury Public Library, Succasunna, NJ

School Library Journal

Middle-grader Saxby Smart is back in his Thinking Chair for three more stories in this second volume of his mystery series (The Curse of the Ancient Mask and Other Case Files, 2009). Speaking congenially to readers, Saxby invites them to help deduce the clues. In the first case, Saxby must find a rare comic book that's gone missing from a locked safe, and he uncovers lots of interesting comic-book trivia in the process of discovering the motive-old-fashioned greed-and the perp. The middle is the most engrossing of the three stories, involving an historic mansion with a dark past where Saxby's friend finds a scroll hidden in the wall that leads them on a brain-teasing hunt to the real "Treasure of Dead Man's Lane." Last, Saxby must unravel the enigma of six students who all have two things in common: home intruders and an anti-stress class. Troublemaker Harry Lovecraft makes a reappearance, and his uncle plays a key role in the mystery. Generously dappled with Alley's breezy line drawings, the cases are timely and twisting enough to keep the light bulb bright in the young sleuth's mind. (Mystery. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews