World-famous duck-tective Miss Mallard\'s trip to Paris gets complicated in this engaging Aladdin QUIX mystery.
Their now adult son, Piet, was the inspiration for many of the author\'s books when he was growing up..
He lives in New York City with his wife, Margery, director of NAAP.
He is the three-time winner of the American Flag Institute Award for outstanding contributions to children\'s literature and winner of an Edgar Allan Poe Special Award for best juvenile mystery.
Quackenbush\'s many books include the Henry the Duck series, Detective Mole, the Miss Mallard Mystery series, Pete Pack Rat, and the Sheriff Sally Gopher series.
Miss Mallard is in Paris to visit an old friend and becomes involved in one of the most terrifying cases of her career: the disappearance of a star performer and the long-ago theft of a fabulous jewel About the Author Robert Quackenbush, the author and illustrator of more than two hundred books for young readers, is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and also has a master\'s degree in social studies and a Ph D in childhood education.
World-famous duck-tective Miss Mallard\'s trip to Paris gets complicated in this engaging Aladdin QUIX mystery
