The Great Shelby Holmes: Girl Detective - Softcover

Eulberg, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408871475 ISBN 13: 9781408871478

Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2017

Synopsis

Shelby Holmes is not your average nine-year-old. For one, she happens to be the best detective her neighbourhood has ever seen, using her uncanny analytical mind and sassy attitude to solve crimes which stump even the police department.

But when eleven-year-old John Watson moves in to her block of flats, Shelby finds a solution to the one puzzle that's eluded her up until now: friendship.

This dynamic duo find themselves swept up in a dog-napping case that'll take both their talents to crack.

About this title

About the Authors

ELIZABETH EULBERG is not a detective (or so she claims). She is, however, the internationally bestselling author of The Lonely Hearts Club, Prom & Prejudice, Take a Bow, Revenge of the Girl with the Great Personality, Better Off Friends, and We Can Work it Out. Elizabeth lives outside Manhattan, where she spends her free time stalking English bulldogs in her neighborhood and filling her brain attic with random pop-culture facts. The Great Shelby Holmes is her first middle-grade novel.
www.elizabetheulberg.com
@ElizEulberg

Matt Robertson grew up in Suffolk, and spent most of his childhood drawing and creating characters. He completed his MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art in 2014, receiving a Distinction for his work. Matt was the winner of a Lara Jones Award and received second prize in the Macmillan Children's Book Prize. His first picture book, Super Stan, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Picture Book Prize and was the winner of the 2017 Dundee Picture Book Award. His first non-fiction picture book, Do You Love Bugs? was the winner of a 2020 Sainsbury's Children's Book Award. Matt lives with his wife and two naughty cats in Norfolk.

From the Back Cover

Shelby Holmes is not your average nine-year-old. For one, she happens to be the best detective her neighbourhood has ever seen, using her uncanny analytical mind and sassy attitude to solve crimes which stump even the police department.

But when eleven-year-old John Watson moves in to her block of flats, Shelby finds a solution to the one puzzle that's eluded her up until now: friendship.

This dynamic duo find themselves swept up in a dog-napping case that'll take both their talents to crack.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408871475
• ISBN 13: 9781408871478
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Matt Robertson
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272