Wilma Tenderfoot: The Case of the Putrid Poison

by Emma Kennedy

Overview

Another hilarious adventure with Wilma Tenderfoot!

Wilma Tenderfoot has realized her dream of becoming an apprentice detective to the famous Theodore Goodman, and she's one step closer to finding out what happened to her parents. Now a new case has sprung up--actors at the Valiant Vaudeville Theatre are being poisoned one by one. Wilma is ready to put her skills to the test, but right in the middle of the investigation, Theodore disappears! Wilma must solve the case on her own (with her dog, Pickle, of course.) Can she discover who the poisoner is before she is the next target?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101529461
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	09/15/2011
Series:	Wilma Tenderfoot , #2
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	479 KB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Emma Kennedy is an award-winning theater, movie, and TV comedy actress, and she also writes for television and radio in the United Kingdom. She lives in London.

Editorial Reviews

Both familiar and fresh.” — Kirkus

From the Publisher

Now a proper apprentice with a badge, 10-year-old Wilma enrolls in the Cooper Academy of Detection and Espionage and helps Detective Theodore P. Goodman find the perpetrator of a series of murders at the Valiant Vaudeville Theater.

When Wilma goes undercover posing as a performer during the investigation, she nearly becomes a victim herself. This would certainly break one of the five Apprentice Detective Golden Rules: "Avoid mucking things up spectacularly." This second in a series starring the detective wannabe and her beagle Pickles offers both another murder mystery with plenty of twists and turns and some steps along the way toward solving the series' fundamental question: Who and where are the foundling's missing relatives? The humor ranges from third-grade snickers at Pickles' "involuntary smells" and digs at arch-villain Barbu D'Anvers' shortness to quite sophisticated puns. An over-the-top review of Wilma and Pickles' dance performance will make even adult readers smile. The writing is straightforward, but Kennedy includes language that may challenge younger readers, irresistible new words like "irascible," "wafting," "sordid" and "maniacally." A couple of pages of summary of the events of the first book will bring newcomers into the long-term story, but this title stands on its own.

Both familiar and fresh, this English import is likely to appeal to American readers as well. (Mystery. 8-12)

Kirkus Reviews