Dennis Sanchez
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Language
English
Description
Cleverly inventive time travel, kids meet gangsters, novel and a great use of historical setting taking the reader back to noir Los Angeles of the 1930s. A fun read for all ages, even adults who enjoy a good noir mystery.Jake and his sister, Darlene, are new to L.A. They discover a skeleton key that acts as a sort of time machine and introduces them to the ghost of Archer Wolfe (mystery aficionados will understand the significance of these names),...
Author
Language
English
Description
Take three live wooden puppet children and team them with a detective agency run by Dorothy and her partner, a blind Scarecrow and his seeing-eye dog, Toto, and set them off to find the puppets' missing parents. The parents have been carved into self-lighting candlesticks in the images of Greek Gods. Considering that the parents can be viewed as products, or living beings, they have either been stolen or kidnapped. Nonetheless, the puppets and detectives...