Book
1 of 1 Copy Available
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
The detective's assistant
Call Number
- J HANN (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Physical Description
359 pages ; 21 cm
Audience
Ages 8-12.
Summary
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 female detective employed by the legendary Pinkerton Detective Agency. And Nell has a knack for the kind of close listening and bold action that made Pinkerton detectives famous in Civil War-era America. With huge, nation-changing events simmering in the background, Nell uses skills new and old to uncover truths about her past and solve mysteries in the present.
Subjects
- Women detectives > Juvenile fiction.
- Aunts > Juvenile fiction.
- Orphans > Juvenile fiction.
- Sex role > Juvenile fiction.
- Aunts > Fiction.
- Orphans > Fiction.
- Sex role > Fiction.
- Chicago (Ill.) > History > 19th century > Juvenile fiction.
- Chicago (Ill.) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
- Pinkerton's National Detective Agency > Juvenile fiction.
- Pinkerton's National Detective Agency > Fiction.
- Warne, Kate, -1868 > Juvenile fiction.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Juvenile fiction.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Fiction.