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A horrible crime has been committed at the port: someone has emptied the Gold Tub and killed the Yellow Fin family. Detecticat is immediately called to investigate. Only in the end does he arrive at the culprit: Mr Elephant, the security guard. Case closed.• Stories to make you laugh.

 

• Small cases to solve with clues that are always evident to the readers, but not initially to the protagonist.

 

• New format for early readers: short lines of text to move the narrative forwards, speech bubbles for the dialogue between the characters.


Pierdomenico Baccalario started writing at an early age and won the Il Battello a Vapore Prize in 1998. Since then he has written many adventure stories, series, and fantasy novels for children, translated into 30 languages and published by top Italian and foreign publishers. For over 20 years he has worked with the Lucca Comics & Games organisation, as well as with La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura. In 2013, he created the creative agency Book on a Tree, in London.

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