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The 100-year-old secret / by Tracy Barrett.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Sherlock files ; 1Publication details: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: 157 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0805083405 (hardcover) :
  • 9780805083408 (hardcover) :
Other title:
  • Hundred-year-old secret
  • One-hundred-year-old secret
Subject(s):
  • A Junior Library Guild selection
Summary: Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister living in London for a year, discover that Sherlock Holmes was their great-great-great grandfather when they are inducted into the Society for the Preservation of Famous Detectives and given his unsolved casebook, from which they attempt to solve the case of a famous missing painting.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Vol info Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Fiction Barrett, Tracy 1 Available 33111005293481
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What if you inherited Sherlock Holmes's book of unsolved cases?

Xena and Xander Holmes have just discovered they're related to Sherlock Holmes and have inherited his unsolved casebook! The siblings set out to solve the cases their famous ancestor couldn't, starting with the mystery of a prized painting that vanished more than a hundred years ago. Can two smart twenty-first-century kids succeed where Sherlock Holmes could not?

Modern technology meets the classic detective story in The 100-Year-Old Secret , the first in Tracy Barrett's terrific new mystery series that will intrigue young sleuths everywhere!

Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister living in London for a year, discover that Sherlock Holmes was their great-great-great grandfather when they are inducted into the Society for the Preservation of Famous Detectives and given his unsolved casebook, from which they attempt to solve the case of a famous missing painting.

A Junior Library Guild selection

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