“…Lyall’s debut is a winner.” —Publishers Weekly
“What’s with the get-up? Is that the company uniform or something?”
“This? All P.I.s wear a trench coat.”
“Dude, that’s a brown bathrobe.”
I shrugged and straightened out my sleeves. “First rule of private investigation, Ivy: work with what you’ve got.”
Twelve-year-old Howard Wallace lives by his list of rules of private investigation. He knows more than anyone how to work with what he’s got: a bathrobe for a trench coat, a makeshift office behind the school equipment shed, and not much else—least of all, friends. So when a hot case of blackmail lands on his desk, he’s ready to solve it himself . . . until the new kid, Ivy Mason, convinces him to take her on as a junior partner. As they banter through stakeouts and narrow down their suspects, Howard begins to wonder if having Ivy as a sidekick—and a friend—is such a bad thing after all.
Named a Book Riot middle-grade book for the summer with special recommendation for reluctant readers!
Nominated for the 2018 Red Cedar Book Award!
This is Book 1 in the Howard Wallace, P.I. Series. See all Howard Wallace, P.I. books here.
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Casey Lyall (5'4", brown hair, blue eyes, no known aliases) is a middle-grade writer from Southwestern Ontario, and the author of Howard Wallace, P.I . She works at her local library where she runs a number of teen groups and waits for management to discover they're actually paying her to have fun. When she's not writing, Casey loves to bake, watch
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