Franklin's Youngest Detective and The Search for the Town's Mayor

By Michael Gilbert

Lucy is Franklin's youngest detective and like all good detectives she is always ready for any big

mystery to come her way. Including the town's missing mayor.

Whereas some towns people say he just packed up and left others speak of only his ghost but for

our young detective Lucy no search is too big and no adventure too small.

Now hold on for the ride as America's new favorite girl detective brings her daring discoveries

straight to your own home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781634179928

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Franklins Youngest Detective and the Search for the Town’s Mayor

By Michael Gilbert

Copyright © 2015 Michael Gilbert 

All rights reserved 

First Edition 

PAGE PUBLISHING, INC. 

New York, NY 

First originally published by Page Publishing, Inc. 2015 

ISBN 978-1-63417-991-1 (pbk) 

ISBN 978-1-63417-992-8 (digital) 

Printed in the United States of America

Children’s Mystery 

It was the spring of 2010, and another school year was quickly coming to an end where children riding bikes and playing ball in the neighborhoods could be seen once again only after another long and cold winter. 

This is also the spring where a twelve-year-old young detective named Lucy begins to discover her town’s biggest mystery. 

The town is Franklin, a small east coast village where the population never grows over two thousand people. 

Most of the adults in Franklin work at one place, the local clock factory. Here beautiful clocks are made and sold throughout the United States. From small table clocks to towering grandfather clocks that stand seven feet tall. Passing by the one-hundred-year-old factory, one can hear the out of rhythm clock singing of all the clocks that are ready to be sent out over all the countryside. Tack tick ticktack, ticktack tack tick. 

However, our story takes place across town on Hickory Street where Lucy and her older brother Mike and Lucy’s mother and father live. 

Lucy’s father works long hours at the local clock factory like so many other parents do in Franklin, and her mother is a grade school teacher who enjoys summer vacations as much as the children of Franklin do. Mike is Lucy’s older brother who loves to play sports, but will never turn down his younger sister when her homework becomes too difficult. 

During the school year, Lucy studies long and hard, though always seems to find plenty of time to play with her three best friends who also live on Hickory Street. Lucy loves to solve math problems as well with her favorite being long division. She also likes to read mystery books as she favors those of that famous London detective Sherlock Holmes. 

With all these interests, one can tell that Lucy is a very active young girl and a very curious girl as well. Lucy just always seems to want to find answers to questions no matter how big they may seem. In fact, when a big mystery shows itself at Lucy’s school or neighborhood she quickly begins to collect clues just as Mr. Sherlock Holmes would do. 

The big mystery Lucy currently wonders