Ratio Holmes and the Case of the Blue Stripe Vandal
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Meet Ratio Holmes! He’s not really the great, great grandson of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, but all the other kids seem to think he is.
Now he’s a detective whether he likes it or not. Still, he’s creative, good at thinking through facts, and has a wicked smart best friend, Jinju. Together, they might make great detectives after all!
Ratio Holmes has no intention of continuing detective work after his first case. That is until a green backpack, an art competition, and a friend in need come together. Jimmy-called-James has been accused of vandalizing another artist’s painting. Even with Jinju’s help, it won’t be easy for Ratio to prove his friend’s innocence to the satisfaction of the Longtides Elementary Art Teacher: Ratio’s mom.
Horatio Holmes
Horatio Holmes, author of the Ratio Holmes series, has grown a lot since his days at Longtides Elementary. Since then he learned to play the bugle (badly), worked as a writer of competitive mathematics problems, even acted in Hamlet playing the very character for who he was named.In other ways, he’s still the same as he ever was: an avid reader, a pursuer of justice, and someone who likes his hot dogs with mustard.
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Ratio Holmes and the Case of the Blue Stripe Vandal - Horatio Holmes
Ratio Holmes Series
Case of the Boston Ball Cap
Case of the Blue Stripe Vandal
Coming Soon:
Case of the Bike and the Books
Case of the Turkey Feather Card Game
Keystone Canyon Press
2341 Crestone Drive
Reno, NV 89523
www.keystonecanyon.com
Publisher Alrica Goldstein
Copyeditor Sylvan Baker
Cover Designer Pandowo Limo
Copyright © 2020 by Horatio Holmes
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
A Cataloging-in-Publication record for this title is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-1-953055-12-5
EPUB ISBN 978-1-953055-13-2
Manufactured in the United States of America
To Anuroopa who might say aht
in her purple turtleneck. I’m a fan.
Meet Ratio Holmes!
He’s not really the great, great grandson of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, but all the other kids seem to think he is. Now he’s a detective whether he likes it or not. Still, he’s creative, good at thinking through facts, and has a wicked smart best friend, Jinju. Together, they might make great detectives after all!
Contents
Chapter 1
It’s Not That Easy Being Green
Chapter 2
Facts are Facts
Chapter 3
Microscopic Examination
Chapter 4
Fleet Week
Chapter 5
The Scientific Method
Chapter 6
Prove It!
Questions for Discussion
Letters to Ratio
About the Author
Chapter 1
It’s Not That
Easy Being Green
I don’t really like green. You know what, I dislike green. I wouldn’t say I hate green, but it’s close. I have two favorite colors, blue and yellow. I know blue and yellow together make green. But to me, green is not blue and yellow, it’s just green.
This might seem irrelevant at first. Maybe it is, because who knows how things might have turned out if I did like green. But it was due, at least in part, to my aversion to that hue that my career as a detective continued past my first, and what I had planned to be my only, case.
My mom knows about my color preferences, and she still gives me lots of green things, because they go well with my blue clothes, and they go well with my yellow clothes. She had just come back from