Silenced!: The 1969 Journal of Malcolm Moorie

Crime Through Time #3

by Bill Doyle

In 1969, fourteen-year-old Mal enrolls in a rural California boarding school where he finds himself caught up in a plot involving endangered animals and an illegal pesticide.

Genres: Mystery

144 pages, Paperback

First published July 12, 2006

About the author

Author Bill Doyle was born in Michigan, and wrote his first mystery at the age of eight. He has gone on to write critically acclaimed and bestselling children's books, including stories of real-life war heroes in "Behind Enemy Lines: True Stories of Amazing Courage"; the pick-your-own-adventure "Worst Case Scenario Ultimate Adventure: Everest"; the historical fiction mystery series Crime Through Time; the Henry & Keats series including "Attack of the Shark-Headed Zombie"; the Scream Team series about Bad News Bears-type monsters playing sports; and soon-to-be released series "The Prizewinners of Piedmont Place."

Additionally, Bill has served as editor at Sesame Workshop, TIME for Kids and SI Kids. He's written for LeapFrog, Weekly Reader, Rolling Stone, Comedy Central, National Geographic Kids, and the American Museum of Natural History. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the film school at New York University where he was taught by the likes of Arthur Miller and David Mamet.

Bill lives with two dachshund-headed canines in New York City, and you can visit him online at www.BillDoyleBooks.com.

Reviews

[aem · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another interesting story.

[Katy Lovejoy · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's been worse kid mystery stories

[aem · Rating 3 out of 5]

educational

[Megan · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's not a terrible story, but the kindle version is so full of errors and typos that it became hard to follow. The errors were embarrassing... blatant misspellings, repeated phrases, and capitalization problems.