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Barrett, Tracey.
100 YEAR-OLD SECRET
New York : Henry Holt, 2008
IL 3-6, RL 5.9
ISBN 0805083405
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 Twins Xander and Xenia have just moved to London and are about to surrender to boredom when they get wrapped up in a one hundred year old mystery.  They find they are related to Sherlock Holmes and they inherit his old case book and decide to pick up when some of his unsolved clues left off.  Is the trail cold after so much time?  Can they piece together the puzzle of a missing painting?  This exciting and quick mystery will guide the reader alongside the siblings.  Can you figure out the clues? Perhaps you too are a descendant of the great Sherlock Holmes.    (New Hampshire Great Stone Face nominee, 2009-2010)
SUBJECTS:     Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
                        England -- Fiction.
                        Mystery and detective stories.

 
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