The Detective's Assistant
Book description
Eleven-year-old Nell Warne arrives on her aunt's doorstep lugging a heavy sack of sorrows. If her Aunt Kate rejects her, it's the miserable Home for the Friendless.
Luckily, canny Nell makes herself indispensable to Aunt Kate...and not just by helping out with household chores. For Aunt Kate is the first-ever…
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2 authors picked The Detective's Assistant as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book has several of my all-time favorite story elements.
First, it’s historical fiction based on an impressive but long-overlooked female pioneer: Kate Warne, the first woman Pinkerton detective.
Second, it has both a high-stakes political story as the characters try to protect the president of the United States from assassination and a high-stakes personal story, as Nell Warne (Kate’s fictional niece) tries to uncover the secret of her father’s death. Did he really kill his own brother? Nell refuses to believe it.
Third, Nell is a funny, spit-fire narrator. And finally, there are secret codes for the reader to…
From Carol's list on middle-grade mysteries about multigenerational family secrets.
I love to read historical fiction, and this book is based on a true story about a female detective of the Civil War era. That also caught my interest. I didn’t even know there were female detectives at this time. The story traces eleven-year-old Neil Warne’s adventures of uncovering her true past and solving mysteries. It’s all about daring to do dangerous things, including saving Abraham Lincoln.
From C.'s list on middle grade stories for adventure lovers.
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