An urgent call has gone out: a series of outrageous crimes must be solved using superior mathematics and logic skills. You have a real knack for these, so you answer the call. You can count on an exciting time when you join junior detective and mathematical wizard Cal Q. Leiter. Use mathematical clues and fun calculations to uncover scam artists, catch vandals and hit-and-run drivers, and solve mysteries of all kinds. What are the odds you can work all these puzzles out for yourself? Pretty good - if you read carefully and think hard, the facts will add up.

 

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Sterling Juvenile .

John Cech writes plays, poetry and fiction for both children and adults. Lucy Corvino's books for Sterling include several Classic Starts[trademark] titles, Poetry for Young People: Robert Louis Stevenson 9781402754760 and numerous joke and puzzle books. Bill Wise is the author of the picture book biography Louis Sockalexis , Native American Baseball Pioneer (Lee & Low Books), which was awarded the National Council for Social Studies Carter G. Woodson Elementary Book Award and the International Reading Association Children's Book Award for Primary Nonfiction. Silent Star, the Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy (Lee & Low Books), also a picture book biography, was named one of the Best Children's Books of the Year, Outstanding Merit by Bank Street College of Education in 2013. Bill lives in Gorham, ME.