I fired up Mark Clark’s computer and Googled “Minerva Clark.” Eighteen hits were returned. There was the newspaper story about me, and Chelsea de Guzman’s MySpace page. There were some dead Minerva Clarks, pioneer women who helped settle the West, and a girl in West Virginia named Minerva Clark who had recently won a regional spelling bee. There was no ninety-year-old Minerva Clark in Portland who raised potbellied pigs. Just as I thought, there was only one Minerva Clark in our neck of the woods, and that was me.
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Copyright © 2007 by Karen Karbo
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Karbo, Karen.
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Summary: Thirteen-year-old amateur sleuth Minerva Clark is contacted by a boy whose parents’ Portland, Oregon, grocery store burned down, but when she agrees to investigate the fire, she does not expect to become an arson suspect herself.
[1. Arson—Fiction. 2. Family life—Portland (Or.)—Fiction. 3. Portland (Or.)—
Fiction. 4. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Title.
PZ7.K132Mj 2007 [Fic]—dc22 2007015091
ISBN: 978-1-58234-679-3 (e-book)