This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing). NOT a remainder copy. This copy includes the publisher's full color bookmark. Illustrated throughout by Joe Servello.

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Title: Trouble in Bugland a Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries
Publisher: D.R. Godine, Boston
Publication Date: 1983
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0879234725
ISBN 13: 9780879234720
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Joe Servello
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New

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A quick-witted insect sleuth, patterned after Sherlock Holmes, displays his brilliant powers of deduction in solving five mysteries.

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Now in its third printing: a collection of five detective stories with an all-insect cast of characters. Follow Inspector Mantis, of brilliant mind, supersensitive antennae, and iron grip, and his faithful sidekick Doctor Hopper, an accomplished violinist and long-jumper, along with a bevy of buggy bandits, as they solve entomological cases with clever sleuthing.

Going forth from his little cottage at 221B Flea Street, Inspector Mantis, accompanied by his trusted colleague Doctor Hopper, solves "The Case of the Missing Butterfly," "The Case of the Caterpillar's Head," and three other antennae-bending mysteries puzzling the populace of Victorian Bugland. Criminal detection, combined entomology, makes this, in the words of The Horn Book, "the most engaging and cleverest reincarnation of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson yet." Joe Servello's color and pen-&-ink drawings bring exquisite period detail to these tales: steam engines, deerstalkers, fog, and mandibles have never been more lovingly crosshatched.

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