Dead Red (Crime Waves)

by Ruth Starke

Dear old Mrs Tuck has run the school canteen for years. But after a chain of nasty culinary upsets, she gets the chop and a slick new commercial caterer is appointed. Angelo Martinelli, junior private eye, smells a rat – and not just the dead one in the canteen. Is it sabotage, or is it a red herring? Can The Angel get to the bottom of the mystery that has the whole school on the run?

Dead Red is a saucy detective story from bestselling author Ruth Starke, full of humour and the kind of explosive jokes that children love.

• ISBN10: 0734414366
• ISBN13: 9780734414366
• Publish Date: 1 January 2013 (first published 1 January 2001)
• Publish Status: Withdrawn
• Publish Country: AU
• Publisher: Hachette Australia
• Imprint: Lothian Children's Books
• Edition: New edition
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 96
• Language: English

Reviews

This was a pretty short and lighthearted read. It was relatively enjoyable if not all that involved and had a few good twists, if not utterly predictable for older readers. There were some funny comments afterall; "saddle old Sherlock Holmes with an Italian mother and see how many cases he'd crack." 3 stars for preteen. 2 stars for my own rating.