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Fourteen-year-old Nick and his brother, an ineffectual private detective, try to prevent the threatened murder of an international pop star in London at Christmas time.Tags
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Tim Diamond is the worst detective. Fortunately he's assisted by his 13-year-old brother, Nick. Tim has been hired to protect the Greek mega-star Minerva, in London to promote her next album "Like a Virginian" and turn on the Christmas lights on Regent Street. Although some of the jokes are groaners, this is a funny YA tale and I can imagine how much my son at 9 or 10 years old would have chuckled his way through it - in one sitting! I did too.
Teen detectives, Tim and Nick, are happy about meeting a famous pop singer, Minerva. But when Minerva's life is threatened, they end up being the unlikely duo to try to solve the mystery of who is it who wants her dead.
This book is ok. It's too short and does'nt have a very strong plot. I think Anthony Horowitz could have done better.
The others in the series are better. This was alright but not as good.
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Author and television scriptwriter Anthony Horowitz was born in Stanmore, England on April 5, 1956. At the age of eight, he was sent to a boarding school in London. He graduated from the University of York and published his first book, Enter Frederick K. Bower (1979), when he was 23. He writes mostly children's books, including the Alex Rider show more series, The Power of Five series, and the Diamond Brothers series. The Alex Rider series is about a 14-year-old boy becoming a spy and was made into a movie entitled Stormbreaker. He has won numerous awards including the 1989 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award for Groosham Grange and the 2003 Red House Children's Book Award for Skeleton Key. He also writes novels for adults including The Killing Joke and The Magpie Murders. He has created Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders for television as well as written episodes for Poirot and Murder Most Horrid. He made The New York Times Best Seller list with his titles The House of Silk Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin and Moriarity.Most recently he was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write the James Bond novel Trigger Mortis. Anthony was awarded an OBE for his services to literature in January 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Greek Who Stole Christmas
- Original publication date
- 2007-10-01
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- 184
- Popularity
- 178,694
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.80)
- Languages
- English, Korean
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 13
- ASINs
- 4
