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Trey #2
Mean Streets
The story opens about a year after I Spy, in the summer of 1928; Trey – aka T Drummond MacIntyre III – is staying with his Gramps on the Circle M ranch in Topeka, Kansas and while it’s fun it’s also quiet with a capital Q. Until, early one morning, Trey meets some mysterious strangers in a very fancy white Buick Monarch on the back roads…
It isn’t long before Trey finds himself in the middle of a real case, involved in high-speed car chases, shoot-outs with Chicago mobsters and skin-of-the-teeth rescue missions – lucky, then, that he’s read How To Become A Private Eye In 10 Easy Lessons, by Austin J Randall! It’s a roller-coaster ride, during which Trey meets a colourful, and sometimes dangerous cast of characters, including Fred and Velma Pisbo, Shady Jones, Dewey McGuigan, Tony Burrell and Mario Andrusa.
Welcome to 1928, where the west is as wild as ever – only now it’s the guys in sharp suits with Tommy Guns doing the talking.
It isn’t long before Trey finds himself in the middle of a real case, involved in high-speed car chases, shoot-outs with Chicago mobsters and skin-of-the-teeth rescue missions – lucky, then, that he’s read How To Become A Private Eye In 10 Easy Lessons, by Austin J Randall! It’s a roller-coaster ride, during which Trey meets a colourful, and sometimes dangerous cast of characters, including Fred and Velma Pisbo, Shady Jones, Dewey McGuigan, Tony Burrell and Mario Andrusa.
Welcome to 1928, where the west is as wild as ever – only now it’s the guys in sharp suits with Tommy Guns doing the talking.
308 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 2010
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November 8, 2020
Not the best mystery book in the world but it was okay
April 28, 2012
This is the story of Trey, a boy who is obsessed with detective stories, who encounters some odd behaviour by some shady characters while staying at his grandfather's ranch in 1920s Kansas. Back in Chicago, he develops some photographs taken while detecting at the ranch with his new friend Alex, who is then snatched on leaving Trey's apartment. Trey witnesses the snatch, but not Alex being released when the kidnappers realise they've taken the wrong boy, and hires a PI to find his friend. Further digging uncovers a plot linking gangsters, a dodgy politician and big business. A great read for fans of fast plotting thrillers and adventures, such as Stormbreaker or Dreadnought.
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