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Tom Sawyer, Detective

Detective and Crime Fiction

Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain and a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. In it, Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in a story that burlesques the immensely popular detective novels of its era. As in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the narrative is told in the first person voice of Huck Finn. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Children's 1
Original Language
English 2
Composed, From (Year)
1896 2
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Mark Twain, Authors
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    Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain.
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    Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn.
  • Authored By: Mark Twain, Infobox, author field
    Author: Mark Twain
  • In Genre: Detective Fiction, Infobox, genre field
    Genre: Detective fiction
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