Pierdomenico Baccalario

Detecticat. The Mastiff Always Plays Twice – vol. 3

Humorous

Mystery

A laugh-out-loud series of detective stories for early readers, who will enjoy recognising the hidden clues before Detecticat does!

The Swan family has just returned home to discover they’ve been robbed. There’s no sign of forced entry, and no one can figure out how the thieves got into the house or managed to open the safe without leaving a trace. Someone must have discovered the combination… but how? Detecticat begins investigating and soon discovers that, both last night and the night before, the owners attended a jazz concert… This clue is music to Detecticat’s feline ears!

Engaging detective stories for early readers, featuring small, humorous mysteries that captivate children’s curiosity and encourage independent reading.
Clues clearly visible to readers: each story provides clear, easy-to-spot clues that enable young readers to anticipate solutions before the protagonist, Detecticat, does.

Publisher: HarperCollins

Target: 5-7

Year: 2023

Author

Pierdomenico Baccalario

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

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