Marathon Race Mystery (Solve-It-Yourself)

By Robert McNear

Book Overview

The reader, a school reporter and amateur detective, overhears a suspicious conversation in a sporting goods store that may affect an upcoming marathon. A course of action must be decided on right... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816704457
• ISBN13: 9780816704453
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Troll Associates
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

The Marathon Race Mystery

Before I start off telling the story I would like to say that this book is very difficult. This book is about a character, Which is me, trying to solve a mystery about a head. I was in a store behind a bookshelf listening to two men talking about them having a head in their backpack and what they are going to do with the head. I tried to see what the two men look like without letting them see me but all I saw was a ring that had an Egyptian Symbol on it. Before I was able to see what the men look like they had already checked out their stuff. I went to the counter to ask the clerk did he know the two men that had just left. He said no, but he did know that they were going to be entering the Marathon on Saturday. The clerk told me about a friend of his that lived in an apartment. When I went to the apartment he wasn't there so I opened the door and went in. I was looking around trying to find some evidence that would help find out who they were. A police had passed the room and asked me what was I doing there. I told him about everything I heard at Tiny's store but he still wouldn't let me look around, so I went to a famous resturant and ordered something to drink. A man had came in and sat beside me. When he put his hand on the table it looked like same ring that I saw at Tiny's store. I was so shocked that I spilled my drink and I didn't even know it until the man said " Let me help you clean that mess up." Then a man came in and sat beside the man beside me. They were talking about the head and that they were going to meet at the warehouse. So they left and a few minutes I left too. I went to get Tiny and we went to the warehouse. When I peeked through the window I saw a bunch gathered around something. I didn't know what it was but I think it was the head. When their was over two men said they were going to the museum because they had to get something. Tiny and I followed them to the museum they got in by a tunnel. When they finally reached a door they couldn't get it opened and they turned around and saw us. They started chasing us. Then Tiny said stop and when I stopped the two men ran into Tiny and Tiny picked them up and slammed them then they started running and we started running after them. They got away and we never saw them again so it wasn't really a mystery or a crime nothing was stolen and no one was caught. I reccomend this book to people who like mystery books and also people ages 8 and up.