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Brooks, Kevin

Martyn Pig

230 pp. | Scholastic | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-439-29595-5 $$10.95
(3) YA Martyn Pig, a lonely and abused teenager, hides the accidental death of his drunken father from the authorities with the help of his one friend Alex, an older teenage girl. An admirer of Sherlock Holmes, Martyn eventually works out that his supposed ally had been planning a larger swindle all along, including murder. Bleak and very (working-class) British, the novel is well constructed and compelling.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano

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