Private Iris Case 01: The Cashbox Caper

Private Iris #1

by Jamie Bautista, Arnold Arre (Illustrator)

Danton Cord is one of the most popular boys in MacGuffin Elementary. His friend, Iris Able, is a loner whom people think is weird. Because she doesn’t talk to anybody, the kids in school have given her the nickname “Private Iris”. However, Iris is also the smartest and most observant person in town. When the money of a class’ cashbox is stolen, Danton sees this as a chance to make people see how special Iris really is. If he can convince her to solve the crime and get the class its money back, maybe he can get Iris to be a bit more popular. But will Iris be willing to help out people she doesn’t like?

Comic Book

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Jamie Bautista graduated cum laude from the Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in Communications, and has spent the years since then as a freelance graphic designer, writer and teacher. He taught classes in English literature and comics theory and appreciation at Ateneo de Manila University, The Beacon School, Assumption College and Xavier School. He is currently also general manager at LSA Printing Press and publisher of Nautilus Comics. He has published the National Book Award winning Siglo: Freedom and Siglo: Passion. He is the creator of the long-running comic series Cast (www.castcomic.com), which is his other collaboration with artist Arnold Arre.

(from the Private Iris website)

Reviews

[Lenard · Rating 5 out of 5]

i want to read this case 1 private iris

[Bookbed · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Even though it is almost a decade old, Private Iris still holds its own and offers the right stuff for kids who want to read a detective story." Continue reading our review here.

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[angel bngg · Rating 5 out of 5]

this story was great actually i just saw this book on our house back 2017 or 2018 and i was curious at first and i read it i want the all case so bad but i dont know where i gonna buy and i can't evem find in local bookstore i still didn't check national bookstore skskks but yeah keep writingggg and doing this thing!

[Charles Kirby]

wala

[DC · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was able to get hold of this book thanks to my little sister, whose school distributed some copies. Once I saw that Arnold Arre was part of the production of this series, I got quite excited about getting hold of each book. *laughs*

At any rate, it's a great opening to a series of detective comic books. I myself have always been interested in detective storybooks (Nancy Drew and whatnot), so I got drawn to this quite quickly. Nevertheless, the story-telling and the art are great, so it wasn't quite a guilty pleasure for me.

I also liked the portion of the book where they stress the importance of saving, but that's beside the literature. It's great, I say simply.

[Dean Xyfer · Rating 5 out of 5]

beutiful

[Erickson]

this is no one of my classroom

[Johnnoel]

i want to read it for free