"Marc Simont has dressed Nate the Great in Sherlock Holmes garb, and Marjorie Weinman Sharmat has perfectly reduced Sam Spade sentences to fit primary grade sleuths. Adults won't mind reading this aloud again and again. Kids will like Nate the Great. Kids will want to read more of his books."
--School Library Journal, Starred
"The illustrations capture the exaggerated, tongue-in-cheekhumor of the story."
--Booklist
After a hearty breakfast of pancakes, Nate the Great gets an urgent call from Annie.
"I lost a picture," says Annie. "Can you help me find it?"
"Of course, "says Nate. "I have found lost balloons, books, slippers, chickens. Even a lost goldfish. Now I, Nate the Great, will find a lost picture."
And so Nate, with the cool detachment of a Sam Spade, plunges into his new and baffling case.
Getting all the facts, asking the right questions, narrowing the list of suspects, Nate, the boy detective who "likes to work alone," solves the mystery and tracks down the culprit. In the process, he also discovers the whereabouts of Super Hex, the missing cat!
