Half Moon Investigations

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**Title** **Half Moon Investigations**

Author	Eoin Colfer
Cover artist	art-Mark Riedy, design-Ellice M. Lee
Country	U.S., U.K., Ireland
Genre(s)	mystery
Publisher	U.S.-Miramax Books, Europe-Puffin Books
Released	U.S. hardcover- March 2006, U.K. hardcover-June 1,2006
Media type	Print(hardcover)
Pages	U.S. hardcover-290pgs., U.K. hardcover-320pgs.
ISBN	U.S. hardcover-0786849576, U.K. hardcover-0141382708

Half Moon Investigations is a novel by the celebrated Irish author Eoin Colfer (Eoin is pronounced "Owen"). It was released in United States in March 2006 and was released in the U.K and Ireland on 1 June 2006.

1 Synopsis
2 Characters
3 Plot summary
4 Trivia
5 Covers
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Fletcher Moon is a half-pint schoolboy and fully qualified private investigator. Since graduating online, he has solved all sorts of minor mysteries at school and at home. His partial friend (or informer, as Fletcher prefers to call him), always wants to see his badge and always wants to try to get it. When Fletcher starts asking questions about a spate of odd crimes in the town of Lock, it quickly becomes clear that nothing is quite as it seems. And the hunter is about to become the hunted.

[edit] Characters

Fletcher Moon aka Half moon
"Red" Sharkey
April
May

[edit] Plot summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The book is about a boy named Fletcher Moon aka Half Moon. Fletcher Moon is a real private investigator that, until now, only have solved small cases for candy. Suddenly a spate of crimes begins to show up, students are being kicked out of school and somebody is going around and stealing important things. Fletcher has to find the criminals before they do anything more. The new thing is that he get payed for it! As Half Moon gets more and more information he sets himself in great danger. Someone tries to kill him and give someone else the blame. He runs out of the hospital to save the evidence, but on his way he faints because of the damages on his head and when he awakes, the police takes him as a primary suspect of an arson. The case is getting much harder to solve. Half Moon finds out that the local criminal family(the Sharkeys) is not that bad after all and that the most popular girls in school are much more naughty than expected. After more and more thinking he and Red, a boy from the local criminal family gets more and more information because of a contact that Red is using. The only thing the contact wants back is information from the police because she is on the side for power. Fletcher knew the password to the police bank on the internet and gave it to her. She showed Fletcher a picture on the TV screen and Fletcher studied it. Suddenly he says that they have to pay one of the popular girls a visit. As he thought, they where about to have a meeting. Red threw one of the walkie-talkies through the window and suddenly they understood how the some of the students had been kicked out of the school, the girls had lured the principal with fake tales just like the one that they where practicing on now! The only thing was that the girls saw Fletcher and Red. April, the leader of the gang whom is also a giant then captures them, then the gang of girls throw them in a cellar underground. Was this the end? Then one of the girls came back again and helped Fletcher and Red out of the cellar so that they could keep on with the case. They drove to the principal's house to catch the girls. Fletcher and Red waited outside the window, because they had written the whole speach that the girls were going to do to the police that was there. The girls got caught right after the speach. Red was about to go into the house when Fletcher said that there was another criminal out there and the girls had not stolen the important things to the school show. Fletcher knew exactly how to find out who it was, but they had to get to the school show before it was going to end! Fletcher had to give the beautifulest girl on the school, May, all the blame... As Fletcher thought… Her dad admited the crimes that he had done. Though this was it was the only thing that was right. One day Fletcher Moon was going to be a private detective that solved even bigger case than this one! The biggest case of his life until now was over…

[edit] Trivia

There is a reference to a character called "Art Fowler", a possible reference to Colfer's Artemis Fowl.
There is also a character named Murt, a name also used in the Wishlist, also by Eoin Colfer.
There is a reference to Fletcher Moon's last name, Moon, a possible reference to Colfer's Artemis Fowl. Artemis in Greek mythology is the Greek goddess of the moon.