Tracy Mack & Michael Citrin

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Tracy Mack is the author of Birdland, named a Book Sense Top Ten Book and a Sydney Taylor Award Honor Book, among other accolades. Her first novel, Drawing Lessons, drew praise, as well, including being named a Booklist Top Ten First Novel. Mack also works as a children's book editor. Michael Citrin is an attorney and avid Sherlock Holmes fan. By the age of twelve, he had read all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sacred Writings and began collecting Sherlockiana, even going so far as attempting to recreate Holmes's famous sitting room in the basement of his house.

How do these two work together? "In our marriage, we have collaborated on many things: taxes, a vegetable garden, home improvements, and our young daughter. But it was a shared love of books that first brought us together, and it's always been a dream of ours to collaborate creatively on a book. One critical point we discovered early on is that we have to surrender our egos to best serve the story. We pass the drafts back and forth, each rewriting until we're satisfied."

While readers the world over are familiar with literature's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, Mack and Citrin wanted to focus on his young assistants-a gang of boys called The Baker Street Irregulars. "I've always wondered why the Irregulars are mentioned in just two short stories and two novels out of the entire canon of sixty stories. We felt it was time to give the Irregulars their due," says Citrin. "I noticed there hadn't been a traditional mystery series for kids in a while," adds Mack. "Growing up, I always loved Encyclopedia Brown, Harriet the Spy, and Nancy Drew, and somewhere in my humblest fantasies was the wish to one day create a new mystery series with memorable characters like these to add to this rich tradition."

Tracy Mack and Michael Citrin live in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts.

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  The Baker Street Irregulars: The Mystery of the Conjured Man by Tracy Mack Casebook #2 in this exciting series gives Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars a most unusual case to crack! A young woman named Elsa Hoffman seeks out the detective when her aunt dies mysteriously. As Ozzie, Wiggins, and the gang start investigating, seemingly real ghosts suddenly appear and Elsa is followed by shady characters. Holmes must decide if he and his assistants can solve the case without facing mortal danger. Join the Irregulars for a mysterious and frightening adventure and decide if this is a case of the supernatural or dark con men, thieves, and murderers! $16.99 books;paperbacks;hardcovers | Ages 9-12

  
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  Sherlock Holmes And The Bsi #3: In Search Of Watson by Tracy Mack Sherlock Holmes's trusted assistants, a band of loyal street urchins called the Baker Street Irregulars, are back for their most puzzling mystery yet, in a case that involves murder, abduction, and the hunt for a lost treasure. As Holmes and the BSI begin their investigations into a gruesome murder, all at once the detectives find themselves in danger. When a personal associate of the master detective disappears, Ozzie, Wiggins, and the gang know that they must uncover the truth - and quickly! Yet there is deception within their ranks. Who is a friend? Who is a traitor? Who can they trust? $6.99 books;paperbacks | Ages 9-12

  
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