The mystery is underfoot...
On a beautiful, carpetlike lawn in a gated yard sit mysterious and smelly piles of dog poop. Mrs. Fefferland puts Joe Sherlock on the case to sniff out the culprit. But even Sherlock Holmes never encountered a case as baffling or as stomach-churning as this one. Most of the evidence is right under Joe's nose, but danger is never far behind!
July 1, 2006
Gr 2-5 -Fourth-grader Joe Sherlock aspires to follow in the footsteps of the famous Sherlock Holmes by solving local mysteries for $10 a day. He is endearing as he bumbles toward the solutions. In "The Haunted Toolshed", he attempts to discover who has been stealing things from his neighbor -s house, including a glass eyeball and a bundt cake. In "Neighborhood Stink", he -s called in to discover which local dog has been leaving a mess in a completely fenced-in yard and gets stuck in a dog door with only his -Inspector Wink-Wink - underpants on. Black-and-white cartoons add to the fun. Allusions to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle abound: Sherlock has an Uncle Mycroft and lives in the town of Baskerville. The gross-out factor is high in these easy chapter books -entire plots pivot on poop and flatulence, which will appeal to fans of Dav Pilkey -s -Captain Underpants - series (Scholastic)." -Kathleen Meulen, Blakely Elementary School, Bainbridge Island, WA"
Copyright 2006 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
January 1, 2007
Meet Joe Sherlock: a nine-year-old detective whose first case ([cf2]Toolshed[cf1]) involves a missing glass eye, disappearing bundt cakes, and a farting grandma. In [cf2]Stink[cf1] Sherlock's after a "mystery doo-doo dog" that's despoiling his neighbor's yard; [cf2]Diamond[cf1] finds the P.I. in hot pursuit of a lost heirloom. The books try too hard to be laugh-out-loud funny, but fans of poo-poo jokes won't mind.
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