Detective Stanley and the Mystery at the Museum

Author: Hannah Tunnicliffe and Erica Harrison

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Chaos at the Art Museum, can Detective Stanley solve the case?

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Chaos at the Art Museum, can Detective Stanley solve the case?

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Highly illustrated animal detective mystery for young readers. Detective Stanley has barely sat down for his breakfast pancakes when he receives an invitation he cannot refuse. The Art Museum has been raided on the opening day of the Bleat Mondrian show and Stan has been called to investigate. The most perplexing thing about the case: Nothing has been stolen! But now Stanley finds himself in a tight spot even his powers of deduction could not detect. Can he get himself out of trouble and can he solve the mystery of the Art Museum?

Critic Reviews

This boldly illustrated graphic novel series kickoff by Tunnicliffe (A French Wedding, for adults) and Harrison (The Honey Bear Hive) stars a pancake-loving, Sherlock-style black and white dog with floppy ears and piercing eyes as the eponymous sleuth. While eating breakfast on what should have been his first day of retirement ("The only puzzles he'd be solving would be jigsaws"), Stanley receives an urgent plea to dust off his deerstalker cap: someone has left the local art museum in disarray, yet nothing appears to be missing, not even Composition Deux, a prized abstract painting by Bleat Mondrian (a playful nod to Piet Mondrian, the subject of the book's afterword). Despite a brief setback-jealous rhino Superintendent Shiro imprisons him for alleged watch theft-Stanley's keen nose and oil painting knowledge lead him to uncovering the crime and its culprit. Clear line drawings and single-plane compositions propel the meaty, joke-punctuated plot at a brisk pace and echo the crisp geometry and vibrant colors of Mondrian's work. Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Hannah Tunnicliffe is the author of several books for kids and adults including Canadian bestseller, The Colour of Tea and trilingual picture book, Marjory and the Mouse. Her work has featured in the New York Times Book Review and she is the founder and host of the podcast, Bod Almighty. She lives by the sea with her family which includes one licky dog and an aloof cat.Erica Harrison is an illustrator and children's book designer from a small village in Norfolk. She moved to the big city to complete her art foundation at Norwich Art School, then took a degree in graphic arts at Leeds Metropolitan. After her studies, she moved to London where she landed her first job at Usborne Publishing. Here she spent the next 12 years designing and illustrating too many titles to mention. Since then, she has continued her travels, working from creative studios in Brighton, New York and Auckland, where she currently lives with her partner and daughter.