The Beast of Blackslope
By: Tracy Barrett
Reading takes you to different places, universes, and times.
Beast of Blackslope is a mystery for middle schoolers that absolutely love mystery. This series is about a brother and sister, Xena and Xander, as they go though their great great great-grandfather's, Sherlock Holmes, unsolved mysteries to figure out what happened. In this book Xena and Xander are on vacation in Blackslope. As they enter Blackslope they figure out that Sherlock was there to investigate the infamous Beast of Blackslope. The beast is back and to keep the tourism going, the locals pretend like nothing's going on. The siblings get lots of clues but never get close. Once they figure out who the beast was they went back to their evidence and saw what the real beast was back in the day.
""Scrawk!" The shrill Scream wasn't very pleasant but was unmistakably a bird call, and nothing like the heart-stopping howls that had been ringing out at dusk and in the night."
"Everybody crowded around some dents in the ground. It was hard to tell exactly what they were tough."
"Xander couldn't help being intrigued. "Could tat be a piece of fur?" Something was stuck in a broken place at the top of one of the posts."
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