title: World's Greatest Sleuth!: A Holmes on the Range Mystery (Holmes on the Range Mysteries)
author:  Steve Hockensmith 
description: In Hockensmith's clever, slapstick-infused fifth Holmes on the Range mystery (after 2009's The Crack in the Lens), Gustav ("Old Red") and Otto ("Big Red") Amlingmeyer travel to Chicago to take part in a "mystery cracking competition" at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. There the "dee-tective" brothers go up against a number of world famous crime solvers, all of whom hope to succeed recently departed Sherlock Holmes as the greatest living sleuth. After considerable chaos, Frenchman Eugene Valmont wins the first round by finding a golden egg hidden by Holmes fanatic Armstrong B. Curtis, Esq. Judging the contest is the esteemed William Pinkerton, heir to the famed detective bureau, who, to the surprise of the Amlingmeyer boys, will not be competing, preferring to "keep his precious agency above the fray." And a fray it becomes after a dead body turns up face down in a large cheese and our heroes chase around "the White City" for the elusive murderer. (Jan.) <br />(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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  About _The 52-storey treehouse_
  
  
  Andy and Terry’s incredible, ever-expanding treehouse has 13 new storeys,
  including a watermelon-smashing level, a wave machine, a life-size snakes and
  ladders game (with real ladders and real snakes!), a rocket-powered carrot-
  launcher, a Ninja Snail Training Academy and a high-tech detective agency with
  all the latest high-tech detective technology, which is lucky because they
  have a BIG mystery to solve—where is Mr Big Nose???
  
  
  Well, what are you waiting for? Come on up!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  CONTENTS
  
  
  [COVER](00_cover.xhtml)
  
  
  [About The 52-storey treehouse](01_about.xhtml)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 1 The 52-Storey Treehouse](04_ch01.xhtml#ct1)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 2 The Mystery of the Missing  
  Mr Big Nose](05_ch02.xhtml#ct2)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 3 Andy & Terry’s High-Tech  
  Detective Agency](06_ch03.xhtml#ct3)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 4 Fun With Vegetables](07_ch04.xhtml#ct4)
  
  
  [CHAPTER 5 Sleeping Jill