Look-see: if you can... Boy Detective

By Anthony Nelson

Looksee

This is a story about a boy detective who is trying to show his teammates and classmates how smart he really is. So he decides to take on an important case for his friend and baseball teammate. In doing so, he must first outsmart his nemesis who is equally as smart while trying to deal with his own ongoing personal battle to solve his relentless and challenging problem with playing baseball.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781638814214

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First Edition

NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

320 Broad Street

Red Bank, NJ 07701

First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2022

Illustrated by Carolyn Booker and Anthony Nelson

ISBN 978-1-63881-420-7 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63881-421-4 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

To Katrina, Alyssa and Lauren Nelson, whose creativity and smiles fill me with joy, I love you.

Who am I? Looksee, private eye extraordinaire and superstar baseball player—if only in my mind. Someday everyone would come to know this if I was only given a chance to prove it. I was the smartest kid in Hillcrest Elementary. No one knew how badly I wanted to be a detective and an above-average Little League player. When it came to being a detective, nothing was better. At any given time, all I had to do is close my eyes, and there I was right in the middle of a case with my hero Sam Slammer. He was the best TV detective who ever lived.

When I imagined, I was a private eye working a case just like Sam would do.

First I check out the crime scene, question the witnesses, and start the investigation. Sam Slammer and I were on the case of the missing bank robber.

I looked at Sam, and he said, Let’s do this!

Suddenly there was a voice saying, "Rupert Aloysuis Looksceney, you turn off that TV right now. It’s time for you to go to your