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Hale, Bruce.
THE MYSTERY OF MR. NICE : FROM THE TATTERED CASEBOOK OF CHET GECKO, PRIVATE EYE
San Diego : Harcourt, Inc., 2000
IL 3-6  RL 4.5
ISBN 0152022716
"Chet Gecko, Private Eye at your service.  No case too small.  Right now I'm on the trail of Mr. Nice, you heard me, Mr. Nice, or should I say Principal Zero?  I knew something was as fishy as the chowder in Maine when he refused to punish me for my artistic rendering of him that I produced in class.  Now no garbage will be left unturned, no conversation left unheard.  With my trusty sidekick Natalie Attired and others I'll crack this case wide open before the next Emerson Hicky Elementary School PTA meeting or my name isn't Chet Gecko, Private Eye."  (New Hampshire Great Stone Face Committee)
SUBJECTS:     Geckos -- Fiction.
                        Lizards -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.
                        Mystery and detective stories.

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