num_pages: 175
description: Someone has stolen nearly a thousand dollars from the Garbage Busters, an environmental group that employs Stevie's mother. Worst of all, they've stolen it right from her house! The Diamond &amp; Kulniki Detective Agency must get right to work. Unfortunately, all of their super sleuthing leads Stevie and her partner Jesse right to their apartment building's garbage bin. Will they ever be able to get through the banana peels, ketchup packs, and rotten, smelly trash to solve the crime?
language: English
title: How Come the Best Clues Are Always in the Garbage?
titlecomplete: How Come the Best Clues Are Always in the Garbage? (Stevie Diamond Mystery #1)
genres: Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, Fiction, Mystery, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 205
series: Stevie Diamond Mystery
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award
publisher: Scholastic Book Services