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The Curse of the Ancient Mask and Other Case Files: Saxby Smart, Private Detective: Book 1

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This is such a cute series, and I plan on telling my students about it.

Saxby Smart is a detective, well, a boy detective, and nothing gets by him. He'll solve any case, and will do anything to get to the bottom of the case.

The stories are cute and it will hold your attention. What I like is that the reader can solve the cases with Saxby as the story mystery unfolds. we have access to all of his notes and thoughts. All of the characters are charming in their own way.

There are three cases for Saxby to solve and the cases are interesting, and how Saxby solves them will keep the reader hooked to the very end.

For me, there are two small drawbacks. The first is that the author uses parentheses a lot. For me, nothing important is in the parentheses. It's such a distraction, and it takes away from the story. Please know that it's just a personal pet peeve of mine. If a reader isn't bothered by parentheses, then it shouldn't take anything away. The other aspect is that one of the stories, there was information that Saxby had, that we never had as the reader, so we couldn't really solve it with him.

This is sort of on the same level as the Encyclopedia Brown series. If you like them, then you'll like this series.

SAXBY SMART, PRIVATE DETECTIVE: IN THE CURSE OF THE ANCIENT MASK AND OTHER CASE FILES by Simon Cheshire is an outstanding first-person saga of a wise-cracking genius detective who goes to school on the side. Three bizarre cases mark this story and invite readers to help solve the mystery.