num_pages: 81
description: Mark Twain’s two most famous creations, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, are reunited in this high-spirited and captivating tale of mystery and murder in deepest Arkansas. When Tom and Huck are invited to stay at Tom’s uncle’s farm in Arkansas, they jump at the opportunity to escape the tedium of a long winter at home. A chance encounter on a steamboat downriver, though, leads to a complex plot of diamond heists, mistaken identity, and murder, involving the two boys in a bigger adventure than even they had in mind. Huck’s typically bemused, folksy narration provides a poignant contrast to Tom’s frenetic ingenuity, as the mystery begins tortuously to unravel, and it is in these two wryly affectionate portrayals that Twain breaths life and humor into his charming, unjustly neglected tale. Mark Twain is one of America’s greatest writers. His best-loved work, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is widely considered to be the first modern American novel.
language: English
title: Tom Sawyer, Detective
titlecomplete: Tom Sawyer, Detective
characters: Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer
genres: Detective, Novels, Young Adult, Childrens, Humor, 19th Century, Classics, Fiction, Adventure, Mystery
ratings_count: 2584
series: Adventures of Tom and Huck
publisher: Hesperus Press