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The Sherlock Society (Book #1 of The Sherlock Society series)
Description:
Siblings Alex and Zoe Sherlock take their last name as inspiration when choosing a summer job. After all, starting a detective agency has to be better than babysitting (boring), lawn mowing (sweaty), or cleaning out the attic (boring and sweaty). Their friends Lina, an avid bookworm, and Yadi, an aspiring cinematographer, join the enterprise, and Alex and Zoe’s retired reporter grandfather offers up his sweet aquamarine Cadillac convertible and storage unit full of cold cases.
The group’s first target is the long-lost treasure supposedly hidden near their hometown Miami. Their investigation into the local doings of famed gangster Al Capone leads them to a remote island in the middle of the Everglades where they find alarming evidence hinting at corporate corruption.
Together with Grandpa’s know-how and the kids’ intelligence—plus some really slick gadgets—can the Sherlock Society root out the conspiracy?
Reader's Review:
A worthy nod to Sir Conan Doyle’s masterpiece detective, Sherlock Holmes James Ponti’s Sherlock Society series is definitely something that should be on every young readers’ list. Since I thought the story was a little slow in the first 3rd of it, I gave this book a 4-star review. Ponti spin a good story and even though I read this and the second book in the series out of order, I enjoyed them both. The nod to the world’s greatest detective is good too.
