Sebastian Super Sleuth & the Egyptian Connection - Hardcover

Christian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0027185605 ISBN 13: 9780027185607

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1988

Synopsis

Dog detective Sebastian helps his master find a shipment of stolen Egyptian artifacts that is being smuggled into the country.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-5 Sebastian, the dog detective, is at work again, this time helping detec tive owner John Jones with a smuggling case. Some priceless Egyptian artifacts have been stolen from Cairo and are being shipped to Sebastian's city. It's up to Sebastian to track down the smuggler and the artifacts. Using his uncanny sense of smell (which is almost destroyed by a run-in with turpentine) and an occasional disguise as a human reporter, Sebastian tracks down a sus picious eccentric art collector and re veals him as the smuggler. The plot of this fun, quick-reading book, like that of a good adult mystery, is backed by solid information, putting it a notch above others of its sort. And young readers will sympathize with Sebas tian's frustration with his adult human friends, who fail to recognize his dedi cation to detective work.Cathryn A. Camper, Minneapolis Public Library
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist:

Gr. 3-6. Christian's hairy hawkshaw returns to solve yet another baffling crime in this tale of an African elephant stolen from a circus. Although Sebastian's human, Detective John Quincy Jones, is technically assigned to the case, the cagey canine saves the day by locating the purloined pachyderm, reuniting two estranged brothers, and exposing the true identity of a clown, Rambling Rose--all in time for the circus to offer a special benefit performance. Christian includes a wealth of information about circuses and elephant behavior as well as a fairly detailed look at the detective process. Sebastian's trademark behaviors--his voracious appetite and a penchant for outrageous (yet somehow unnoticed) disguises--add to the fun. A sure bet for series fans, this will also be popular with beginning chapter book readers and mystery buffs. Kay Weisman

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0027185605
• ISBN 13: 9780027185607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 59