Marchino the Magician
Pierdomenico Baccalario, Gabriele Barrocu
Detecticat. The Sunday Weasel – vol. 8
Humorous
Mystery
When the case looks closed… Detecticat sniffs out the truth.
Detecticat faces big trouble when the bumbling architect Mr. Gallone is found dead under mysterious circumstances, crushed by a huge object. It quickly becomes clear that Gallone had many enemies—he was clumsy, inept, and drowning in debt. But who disliked him enough to get rid of him forever?
- 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.
From the same series (Detecticat): Detecticat and the Bullglar, Crime and Fisherment, The Mastiff Always Plays Twice, The Window Overlooking the Pigsty, Arsenic and Old Wolves, Big Octopus in Little China, The Caterpillar Beyond the Hedge.
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Target:
5-7
Year:
2025
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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