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Tom Sawyer, Detective: A Mystery Featuring Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515401612
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Jul 31 2015
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain presents the familiar characters of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in a lively tale of mystery and adventure.
Narrated once again by Huck Finn, the story follows Tom and Huck as they travel to the Mississippi Delta and become entangled in a perplexing crime. When a murder accusation threatens an innocent man, Tom applies his sharp curiosity and inventive reasoning to unravel the truth behind the mystery.
Blending humour, suspense, and Twain's characteristic storytelling voice, the narrative playfully adapts the conventions of detective fiction while maintaining the adventurous spirit that made the earlier Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn stories so widely beloved.
Although shorter than Twain's major novels, Tom Sawyer, Detective offers an engaging glimpse of the famous characters in a different setting, combining youthful adventure with the emerging popularity of detective stories at the end of the nineteenth century.
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