Homework is Hard, Murder is Easy

An Impossible Crime, Murder Mystery Book for Teens and Tweens, Boys and Girls Age 11-15

De: Mike Mains

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Jeffrey has a math test in the morning, tonight he has a murder to solve.

15-year-old Jeffrey Jones is in trouble again. It doesn't matter that he and his friends helped catch a pair of thieves from their school's theater department. What sent his father's blood pressure through the roof is that one of the thieves is suing Jeffrey's family. By trying to do the right thing, Jeffrey has once again made everything worse.

Then a girl from school dies under mysterious circumstances and Jeffrey and his friends find themselves drawn into another chilling mystery. The police rule the girl's death an accident. Jeffrey thinks it's murder. And he thinks he knows who did it. There's only one problem. The person Jeffrey suspects is the most popular football player at school, and at the time of the girl's death he was on the field in front of hundreds of witnesses, leading his team to victory. How can a person possibly be two places at once?

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The North Hollywood Detective Club Mystery Book Series

The Case of the Hollywood Art Heist

It's a hot summer and 14-year-old Jeffrey is grounded. It doesn't matter that he and his best friend Pablo solved a neighborhood burglary. It's the danger Jeffrey put himself in that so upset his father. Now he's sentenced to an endless summer of mowing lawns and cleaning out dusty, cobweb-covered garages for cranky old Mr. Kozlowski.

But when the brother of the cute girl next door is arrested for stealing a valuable painting, Jeffrey can't help himself. He and Pablo start a detective club and set out to investigate the crime.

Together with their friends Marisol and Susie, they find themselves in a dark and dangerous mystery, where no one is telling the truth and everyone has something to hide. With time running out, the four friends must marshal all their detective skills to solve an impossible crime, rescue an innocent man, and prove their own worth.

The Case of the Dead Man's Treasure

A graveyard at midnight, cloaked in mist and concealing hidden treasure. A trio of sinister villains who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the prize. And four teenage detectives in a race against time!

The Case of the Christmas Counterfeiters

While the rest of the world prepares to celebrate Christmas, 15-year-old Jeffrey and his friends uncover a plot to flood their city with billions of dollars in counterfeit money. Their investigation leads to a criminal kingpin, his hoodlum son, and a mysterious 15-year-old girl who holds the key to the entire puzzle. Action-packed from start to finish, readers have voted this their favorite book in the series.

The Case of the Deadly Double-Cross

All Jeffrey wanted to do was help a friend from school find her missing father. He had no way of knowing it would lead to his being arrested for the man's murder. Now after a daring escape, he and his friends must solve an impossible crime and catch a killer - before the police catch them.

The Case of the Jilted Juliet

A mysterious note found in a school library book leads Jeffrey and his friends to suspect that a girl who committed suicide was actually murdered. Their investigation leads to a haunted library, a web of lies and long-buried secrets, and a list of suspects that includes their own high school principal.

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