num_pages: 45
description: For the last fourteen years former celebrated Boy Detective Merle Madison has been trying to build a grown-up career for himself as a private investigator. There are just two problems: theres not a lot of serious crime in the small town of Hayvenhurstand Police Chief Isaac Ramsay keeps denying Merles application for a PI license. Merle and Isaac have history some good and some bad so when someone seems determined to put Merle out of businesspermanentlyhe naturally turns to his former sidekick for help. But Isaacs days of playing second fiddle to a Junior Sherlock Holmes are long past. In fact Merle will be lucky if Isaac doesnt kill him himself. 
language: English
title: The Boy Next Door
publisher: JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.