Invisible Detective: Shadow Beast (The Invisible Detectives)

A daring bank robbery leads the Invisible Detective gang down into the sewers, where they discover a hideous beast whose master is the bank robber.

From Booklist

Gr. 5-8. The Invisible Detective solves crimes with the help of his young compatriots in 1930s London. In this installment of the new series, the mysterious detective (no one sees his face) is consulted after a bank robbery and sends his young helpers to the tunnels below London to investigate. There, they encounter a strange ratlike beast that is controlled by an evil man. The novel includes two plotlines: one follows the young detectives; the other, which takes place in present-day London, centers around a boy and his grandfather (who was one of the young detectives as a boy) and their encounters with the beast's descendants. The mystery falls apart in places, but several individual scenes are memorable. The dark and menacing world beneath the streets of London is richly evoked, and the detectives' encounter with a mass of scurrying rats is guaranteed to give plenty of kids the creeps. Readers will look forward to the next Invisible Detectives book. Todd MorningCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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Justin Richards lives in Warwick, England.

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