A CASE FOR G. STRING Julia Owen, Scholastic, Auckland New Zealand, 2005, 197 pages, paperback, $16.99. ISBN 1-86943-676-8
For obvious reasons Geraldine String, the narrator of this comic teen crime-buster story, prefers to be known as Mickey. While she is delivering her brother’s newspapers (in the hope of bumping into the town’s newly-arrived skate-boarding hunk) Mickey discovers that someone is searching the house of a recently-deceased old lady, Miss Horn. And why has Cupcake, Miss Horn’s savage little dog, disappeared?
For obvious reasons Geraldine String, the narrator of this comic teen crime-buster story, prefers to be known as Mickey. While she is delivering her brother’s newspapers (in the hope of bumping into the town’s newly-arrived skate-boarding hunk) Mickey discovers that someone is searching the house of a recently-deceased old lady, Miss Horn. And why has Cupcake, Miss Horn’s savage little dog, disappeared?
Before long a band of amateur detectives are climbing into the empty house and into trouble.Mickey’s cheerful interplay with her oddball pink-haired grandmother, irritating little brother and her friends, Bugs and Erina, keeps the story interesting. The cunning crime never seems particularly plausible, but A Case for G. String provides a painless read, with plenty of younger brother jokes.
Trevor Agnew
First published in The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand on September 3rd 2005
Trevor Agnew
First published in The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand on September 3rd 2005
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