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The 100-Year-Old Secret: The Sherlock Files Book One Spiral-Bound | March 30, 2010

Tracy Barrett

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Sherlock Holmes’s great-great-great-grandkids are using modern technology to crack his unsolved cases.


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

Xena and Xander Holmes think living in London will be boring. But one afternoon they’re handed a cryptic note that leads them to a hidden room—and a secret society. When they discover they’re related to Sherlock Holmes and inherit his unsolved casebook, life becomes so 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 more than a hundred years ago. Can two smart twenty-first century kids succeed where Sherlock Holmes could not?
Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 176 pages
ISBN-10: 031260212X
Item Weight: 0.3 lbs
Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.6 inches

“A strong start to what will undoubtedly remain an enjoyable series.”—Kirkus Reviews

“A fast-paced, entertaining mystery.”—Booklist

“A well-paced beginning to a new series.”—School Library Journal

Tracy Barrett is the author of the Sherlock Files books, as well as several other acclaimed books for young people, including King of Ithaka, Cold in Summer and Anne of Byzantium. Her books have been named an ALA Best Book for young adults, a Bank Street best children’s book of the year, and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, among other honors. She is a professor of Italian language and civilization at Vanderbilt University and lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee.