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Title: The Sherlock Files Cases: Unsolved Book 1 The 100-Year-Old Secret by Tracy Barrett

Genre: Contemporary fiction/middle grade/mystery

Reading level: Easy/medium. 

Content warning (a warning of things that readers may not want to engage with): A few breaking and entering scenes. 

Content label (a label of what can be expected in this book, so that readers can avoid this book if they want to):  exciting action scenes.

Page count: 157

You should read this if… You love a good mystery. If you want a fresh take on a Sherlock Holmes story. If you love to see smart thinking come to life.

Description: Taken from the back of The 100-Year-Old Secret by Tracy Barrett:

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 ancestors couldn’t. Starting with the mystery of a prize painting that vanished more than a hundred years ago. Can two smart twenty-first century kids succeed where Sherlock Holmes could not?

If you love a good mystery that keeps you guessing about the answer then Tracy Barrett’s first book in her series will have you hooked! Tagging along behind the siblings and learning how to look at a puzzle in a new way is just one of the things I learned when reading this book. So step inside and pull on your detective cap! 

Look for this book at your local library or consider buying it for yourself!

With Faith, Hope, Love, and Feathers,

Inertia.