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Tom Sawyer, Detective
By Mark Twain
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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In Mark Twain’s short novel Tom Sawyer Detective (1896), Huck Finn relates the story of his and Tom’s trip to Arkansas to help Tom’s Uncle Silas. Learning that he has confessed to a murder he didn’t commit, Tom must open the mail-order detective kit he has just purchased in order to clear Uncle Silas’ name. Stolen diamonds, a shallow grave, and a pair of dangerous criminals all factor into this thrilling, lesser-known comic gem by Twain.
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Mark Twain
Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard L. Stein are members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Reviews for Tom Sawyer, Detective
Rating: 3.504000048 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
125 ratings7 reviews
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not as bad as Tom Sawyer Abroad, but no where near as great as the 1st two. It felt rushed and not thought out well. I did enjoy Tom's discovery of the murderers at the end though.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I would have liked to rate this book a 2.75. I listened to the audio version of this book, edited by Shannon Chappele and read by Bruce Johnson. The recording felt like a low-budget production. Johnson's voice didn't fit the adolescent voice of Finn who narrates the story. The voices of the other characters were also performed inconsistently. I found some elements of the robbery and murder enticing, but overall the recording was unenjoyable. I may have rated this book higher had I actually read it instead of listened to it.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5this little wisp of a book is an add-on from MT letting us share a shabby "adventure" of Tom and Huck. Of course, it's told from Huck's viewpoint, probably because Samuel Clemens liked to think he was basically a dumb country boy who liked his vices more than the intelligent wiley tom. put them together, and you probably have the essence of Clemens' personality. Too short. Too slight.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Told from the point of view of Huckleberry Finn, this short story takes the pair back to Uncle Silas' home to save him from shame and ruin. Huck thinks Tom is the smartest person he knows (including all the adults he knows) and accordingly Tom figures everything out and "reveals" all in the most smarty-pants way possible. Entertaining but that's it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a short book. Like Tom Sawyer Abroad, I felt it messed a little with the established canon of the Adventures of Toim Sawyer and Huck Finn. It was clearly a case of Mark Twain poking fun at a genre of detective story using his favourite characters.This story was not as unbelievable as Tom Sawyer abroad, but still not a book I would read again and again like I did with Huckleberry Finn.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was the end of the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn series. I felt that it was lessened in effect- although the stakes were still high, and that the story was decent but not in tone to the other novels in the series. Nevertheless, it was interesting reading.3 stars.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I didn't care for this book as much as I did for the other Tom Sawyer books. I just don't think the story was necessary in the chronicles of Tom and Huck's life in the sense that it wasn't much of an adventure as the rest, it was just a crime story. It was good though, just didn't match up to the enjoyment given by the previous two stories.
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