Chicagoland Detective Agency #4: The Big Flush

Chicagoland Detective Agency #4

by Trina Robbins

Poor Megan history's repeating itself. She's been booted from Stepford Prep, and her father is sending her to visit Pine Lake Academy . . . a boarding school. This could mean the end of the Chicagoland Detective Agency! Raf and Bradley come along to get a sniff at the new school, but when Megan ducks into a restroom marked do not enter and Raf takes a sip from an old fountain, school becomes the least of their problems. Something spooky is knocking around in the pipes, and now it has its hooks in them.
Have Raf and Megan really been taken over by a ghost from a hundred years ago? Can Bradley dig up the mystery that's dogged Pine Lake Academy for a century? What deeply buried dastardly deeds will bubble to the surface?

Genres: Mystery, Comics, Childrens, Fiction, Graphic Novels

68 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Trina Robbins is an American comics artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Her first comics were printed in the East Village Other. She later joined the staff of a feminist underground newspaper It Ain't Me, Babe, with whom she produced the first all-woman comic book titled It Ain't Me Babe. She became increasingly involved in creating outlets for and promoting female comics artists, through projects such as the comics anthology Wimmen's Comix. She was also the penciller on Wonder Woman for a time in the '80s.

Trina has worked on an adaptation of Sax Rohmer's Dope for Eclipse Comics and GoGirl with artist Anne Timmons for Image Comics.

Trina designed Vampirella's costume for Forrest Ackerman and Jim Warren.

In addition to her comics work, Robbins is an author of non-fiction books, including several with an emphasis on the history of women in cartooning.

She is the first of the three "Ladies of the Canyon" in Joni Mitchell's classic song from the album of the same name.

Trina Robbins won a Special Achievement Award from the San Diego Comic Con in 1989 for her work on Strip AIDS U.S.A., a benefit book that she co-edited with Bill Sienkiewicz and Robert Triptow.

Reviews

[Robyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this graphic novel. I was a bit disappointed in the artwork, it was not as crisp as some and it was black and white... so not very colorful. Megan is an overly dramatic 13-year-old girl who has a hard time conforming. As such she is about to be expelled from her school... clearly something that follows this child. She is quite concerned that she will be sent to a boarding school by her father.
Her father sends her to visit Pine Lake Academy . . . a boarding school.

But being sent away will be the end of the Chicagoland Detective Agency! Raf and Bradley go with her. There they find the plumbing haunted by not one, but two ghosts. Thank God they are there to solve this mystery. This was a Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers!

4 stars

Happy Reading!

[Joseph Ryan-Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is about 2 children and a talking dog who get expelled for not wearing their uniform reading comics and misbehaving and move to a private school and tell the headmaster that the dog is a service dog to get it inside and find out the girls toilet is haunted and the 3 are in the Chicagoland mystery squad so they talk to the 2 ghosts 👻👻 and find 1👻 Charity∅ locket but the second ghost Charity's cousin Verity took it and buried it when she was alive.

I liked this book because I like mysteries

I would recommend this book to 4-12

[Dolores · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book four in the series. This series is just good, fluffy fun. It has appeal for both boys and girls, and has both humor and adventure. I think of this as the Scooby-Doo of graphic novels. Can't go wrong with a winning formula.

[Pinky · Rating 3 out of 5]

The whole gang, Megan, Raf and Bradley are on the case. The water pipes and bathroom at Pine Lake Academy are haunted and it's up to the Chicagoland Detective Agency to solve the mystery. Involves ragtime, a locket and the Titanic.

[ponderinghope · Rating 5 out of 5]

I do not think i can deal with anything anymore that has to do with the titanic. I Passed that period of my young life only to be sucked in again by this book. When will my surrow end?

[Jess · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well that was incredibly stupid and a waste of time.