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201 pp.
| Delacorte |
May, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-385-32567-3$$15.95
(4)
YA
Fulfilling a community service obligation, teenage Abbie is assigned to spend time with a disagreeable elderly woman who fancies herself a private investigator. When Mrs. Merkel is attacked, Abbie must figure out which of the amateur sleuth's criminal cases backfired. The book tackles so many subjects, from divorce to romance to the problems of the elderly, that the central mystery loses its impact.