Scooby-Doo: The Case of the Mad Mermaid

Scooby Doo! And You: Collect the Clues Mystery

by Jesse Leon McCann, Duendes del Sur (Illustrator)

Scooby needs you! Join Scooby-Doo and the rest of the Mystery, Inc. gang - Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy - as they go deep under the sea. They're searching for the secret behind the creepy crone known as the Mad Mermaid! She's spooking an underwater lab, and now she's set her sights on the gang's submarine. Dive into adventure and solve the mystery by following the clues!

Genres: Childrens, Mystery, Fiction

34 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Jesse Leon McCann is an American comic book and children's book author. He wrote most of the stories for the Pinky and the Brain comic series, edited two out of the four Simpsons episode guides, and wrote all of the Smiley the Psychotic Button comics for Chaos! Comics. McCann's Shrek II movie adaptation novel made the New York Times Best Selling Children's Book list in 2005. While McCann mostly scribes comic books and children's books, he has written for a variety of genres in different forms (such as the Austin Powers trivia game).

Reviews

[Nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. I like that these books are interactive for kids and help them to solve the mystery on their own. They give them the suspects and the clues in a story form then ask them questions hoping their answers lead them in the right direction, but they don’t lead the reader. You can’t just read the book and not think about it at all and the questions tell you who it is, you actually have to put a little thought into it. It’s great for kids who enjoy mysteries and figuring things out! My only issue with this one is that there was a page where it was missing a chunk of the writing. It just stopped mid sentence and ended the chapter. I could figure out about what I had missed as I continued with the next chapter but kids might have a lot more struggle with that. I was reading a kindle version of the book and even downloaded it to a different device to see if there had been an issue downloading it but it was still missing. I don’t know if this is in all the versions of the book but beware if you read the kindle version because you might be missing a part of it.

[J.B. Mathias · Rating 2 out of 5]

i liked that they broke the formula a little bit with this one, but was still a pretty simple formulaic mystery.

[Matthew Colby · Rating 3 out of 5]

can I read it for free on libary