The 100YearOld Secret, Tracy Barrett
The 100YearOld Secret, Tracy Barrett
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The 100-Year-Old Secret
The Sherlock Files #1

Author: Tracy Barrett

Narrator: David Pittu

Unabridged: 2 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/10/2008

Synopsis

Go to The Dancing Men and ask for a saucer of milk for your snake. Then all will be revealed.

That’s all the note says–before the ink disappears! Xena and Xander Holmes think living in London will be boring. But when they discover they’re related to Sherlock Holmes and inherit his unsolved casebook, life becomes much more exciting.
The siblings set out to solve the cases their famous ancestor couldn’t, starting with the mystery of a prized painting that vanished a hundred years ago. Can two smart twenty-first— century kids succeed where the celebrated Sherlock Holmes could not?

About The Author

Tracy Barrett is the author of numerous books and magazine articles for young readers. She holds a Bachelor's Degree with honors in Classics-Archaeology from Brown University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval Italian Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly interests in the ancient and medieval worlds overlap in her fiction and nonfiction works.    A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study medieval women writers led to the writing of her first novel, the award-winning Anna of Byzantium. Since then, she has also written The Stepsister's Tale, Dark of the Moon, King of Ithaka, and The Sherlock Files series.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jayaprakash

Aimed at the 10-12 year old set, apparently, this is a smart, interesting mystery for younger readers. Xena and Xander Holmes are siblings whose family has just moved to the UK for a year. Brother and sister enjoy whiling time away playing the Game - a game handed down through the generations in the......more

Goodreads review by Rfrancik

Two children who discover they are the decendents of Sherlock Holmes solve a mystery and meet other decendents of the Holmsian world while finding a long lost painting. Who couldn't resist the lure of a book about Sherlock Holmes? Sadly this mystery story does not live up to its title. Siblings Xena......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

I really like this book because it is a mystery book. They found out they are descendent of Sherlock Homes. They both found his notebook of unsolved cases. This book was really interesting because there were some words that were hard to read. That's very special to them that they found out that they......more

Goodreads review by Sarah

This was a fun mystery to read. I had originally picked this up because I needed a character whose name started with an X for a challenge and this series actually has two X characters in it: siblings Xena and Xander! And even though I have other library books here I should read first, I found myself......more

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