Sabotage stage left

Sabotage stage left

Casey Lyall

Book - 2018

Spring (musical) fever has hit the Grantleyville Middle School Drama Club! Since Ivy Mason is busy with the production, she decides to take a break from sleuthing, while Howard Wallace keeps things running smoothly with their detective agency. Then, just a few weeks before showtime, suspicious things start happening backstage: missing costumes, damaged props, and too many other mishaps to be coincidental. Ivy calls in Howard and their crew to take on the case. Howard tries to lay low and quietly sniff out the perp, but he's soon brought into the spotlight when he's framed as the saboteur! Can the team of intrepid P.I.s clear Howard's name and catch the culprit before the curtain falls on the big show?--

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Subjects
Detective Agency > Juvenile fiction.
Children's plays > Juvenile fiction.
Middle schools > Juvenile fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Genres
Mystery fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Published
New York : Sterling Children's Books [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Casey Lyall (author)
Physical Description
247 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781454929680
Contents unavailable.
Review by Kirkus Book Review

Wallace and Mason Investigations is on the case again!Howard and Ivy are still solving cases for kids at Grantleyville Middle School even though Howard has been told he will be suspended if he's caught investigating on school grounds again. There is a graffiti tagger in town, and someone is sabotaging the middle school musical. Thankfully, Howard and Ivy now have a crew to help them with investigations, though Howard has trouble trusting his new associates. Still, the graffiti case bears fruit early (thanks to Howard's personal attentions). The sabotage case is harder to crackthe list of suspects is long. When they narrow it down, Howard finds himself stung by a smart perpetrator, and he must rely on his associates. Can they trap the saboteur? Or will Wallace and Mason Investigations disband? Lyall continues to expand and improve her characterizations in this funny, entertaining, and suspenseful series of realistic(-ish) mysteries. Howard realizes he just can't investigate on his own, especially when he is both trapped and suspended. Fans will be happy for the new case, and new readers should not miss out on the first two. Most characters present white, with naming conventions implying diversity.The series just keeps getting better; fans will hope for more. (Mystery. 8-12) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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