by Erich Kästner · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099413127
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«Emil and the Detectives» is Erich Kästner's children's mystery novel, published by Random House UK in paperback (218 pages, in English).
Emil heads to Berlin to see his grandmother and, during the train journey, someone steals the money he is carrying. Far from giving up, Emil accepts the help of a group of city boys who become makeshift detectives and organise a chase to catch the thief before he escapes.
It is the first instalment of the Emil series; it was originally published as «Emil und die Detektive» in 1929 and this edition belongs to the Red Fox Classics collection.
Recommended for child and young readers aged 9 and over, with an interest in adventure and mystery classics.
Emil Erich Kästner was a German writer, poet, screenwriter and satirist, known primarily for his humorous, socially astute poems and for children's books including Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1960 for his autobiography When I Was a Little Boy. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in eight separate years.
