Sleuth!
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"Our cover picture Holiday traffic on its way to the coast, August 1960' may evoke nostalgia, interest, curiosity or speculation. Whatever the response, if it encourages close looking that is what Penny Marshall had in mind when she selected for Cars (0 356 l 1393 0) in her The Camera as witness series for Macdonald."
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This is no classic of fictional writing, but a confederacy of 20 mediocre 'whodunnit' crime stories, which might appeal to a Top Junior age child. Basically, one has to pit one's skill against the perpetrators of a whole range of dastardly deeds, using clues to solve the cases. Some clues employed are informative, and involve semaphore, cypher, Morse code, etc., but some are mundane. The cartoon-type case studies are especially crude in their drawing and 'plot'. The concept behind the book is laudable, but the quality is questionable. I don't feel I'd stock it in the school bookshop.
