Chet Gecko Mysteries (Numbered): The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse (Series #01) (Hardcover)

from sweetiegherkin

Fourth-grader Chet Gecko is known around the playground as the guy who can solve mysteries, so when Shirley Chameleon's little brother Billy is missing, she turns to Chet to find him. This charming little book is the kid's version of the noir, hard-boiled detective story, although it's told in a ...

from Sheila1957

Set-up for the Chet Gecko Mystery series has Chet taking on a case at school where the little brother of a girl he likes is missing. The doll does not give Chet all the info she has and he has to do a little detective work. He gets a sidekick he didn't want with Natalie but it is a good thing she...

from sassafras

Chet Gecko. Private Eye. Fourth grader at Emerson Hicky Elementary. Lizard. Shirley Chameleon's little brother is missing. Chet agrees to find Billy, for payment a stinkbug pie. So why is Billy hanging out with Herman the Gila monster and what does it have to do with football, a gopher, and the c...

from matthewbloome

I can't help but love this story. Chet Gecko is just plain funny, beginning to end. His gum-shoe detective work is wonderfully oddball and funny in a way that few books maintain so consistently. Natalie, his sleuthing partner, is cheesy and brilliant and he is so in love with private-eye motif th...

from matthewbloome

I can't help but love this story. Chet Gecko is just plain funny, beginning to end. His gum-shoe detective work is wonderfully oddball and funny in a way that few books maintain so consistently. Natalie, his sleuthing partner, is cheesy and brilliant and he is so in love with private-eye motif th...