Summary
Stuck in his room with a broken leg, 12-year-old amateur sleuth Jack McGurk still finds a mystery to solve. With the help of his neighborhood pals, McGurk spies on the rather suspicious new people moving into the neighborhood. Could they really be planning a kidnapping and robbery? B&w illustrations accompany the story.
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"What's fun is that it's possible to imagine ordinary kids doing everything the McGurk gang does, from booby-trapping a vacant lot to sending messages in semaphore code. Hidick's British idioms contrast oddly with the US locale, but fans of this kind of fast-moving formula fiction won't pause long enough to notice."
-- Kirkus
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 1996
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.7 pounds
Ages: 4 to 6
Pages: 154
Synopses
McGurk is confined to an upstairs bedroom when he breaks his leg, but that doesn't stop him and the rest of his detective organization from uncovering a clever robbery scheme being plotted right next door.
Publisher's Notes
Readers can once again match wits with cunning villains and test their crime-solving skills alongside the members of the McGurk Organization. This time, however, McGurk is stuck in his room with a broken leg. But even a broken bone can't stop McGurk and his gang from fighting crime.
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