?Looky here, Huck, I?ll tell you one thing that?s mighty curious. Upto the time we went out last night the family hadn?t heard about JakeDunlap being murdered. Now the men that chased Hal Clayton and BudDixon away would spread the thing around in a half an hour, and everyneighbor that heard it would shin out and fly around from one farm tot?other and try to be the first to tell the news. Land, they don?thave such a big thing as that to tell twice in thirty years! Huck,it?s mighty strange; I don?t understand it.?
Tom Sawyer, detective(1896) is a sequel of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and TheAdventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), books that he wrote to earn his younger readers? esteem. In this book, full of humor and influencedby Conan Doyle?s novels, young Tom (like Sherlock Holmes) tries tosolve a mysterious murder helped by Huckleberry, who parodies Watson.
