Mystery+Fiction

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 * BLACK DUCK** by Janet Taylor Lisle - David, a young teen, is interviewing a senior citizen to try to find out what really happened the night the boat Black Duck was shot up by the Coast Guard. It was during prohibition, and the Black Duck was illegally smuggling liquor into the U.S. But the crew of the Black Duck had developed a Robin Hood persona for helping folks in need during the Depression, so people had a guarded admiration for it. Lisle uses facts from the 1920's and 30's to make her story come alive. There was such a demand for liquor during prohibition that Mafia-type gangs sprung up to control the import of liquor by paying off officials and threatening those who would not be paid off. As Reuben Hart, the senior who was a young boy at the time of the Black Duck incident tells, danger and adventure lurked around every corner, and almost everyone was affected one way or another. A thrilling mystery.


 * THE LONDON EYE MYSTERY** by Siobhan Dowd - If you aren't put off by British English, this is a great mystery. Two kids take their visiting cousin to ride the London Eye. He is visiting before having to move from Manchester, England to New York City. Someone gives them a free ticket, so instead of riding with him, the two send their cousin up without them. They watch him enter the car and go all around, but when it's time for him to get off, he's nowhere to be found. What could have possibly happened to him? Eventually, the police are called, but it's the cousin with Asperger's Syndrome who might solve the case.


 * THE MYSTERY OF THE THIRD LUCRETIA** by Susan Runholt - The story starts at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts when two friends, Kari and Lucas, see an artist painting a copy of part of a Rembrandt. What made it notable was that the guy "creeped" her out when he gruffly told her to go away. A year later, in a London museum, when they hear the same snarl, they become obsessed with finding out who the copying artist is and what he's up to. Because in London, he's adopted a totally different appearance from what he had in Minneapolis. Stay with this one until the case is solved in Amsterdam!