num_pages: 288
description: Retired private detective and current seventh grader Steve Brixton has a new career: taking out the garbage on Wednesdays for five bucks a week. But its hard to leave the old game behind and on a train trip down the California coast Steve finds himself pulled back into sleuthing. Soon hes in over his head in four feet and eleven inches of mystery involving a fleet of priceless automobiles a deadly assassin (or maybe just a faulty lock on a sauna door) and a secret train car filled with intrigue. Plus theres a girl involved which complicates everything. I mean shes just Steves friend. And really they barely even know each other. Its not like theyre boyfriend or girlfriend or anything okay?
language: English
title: It Happened on a Train
publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers