Jack McGurk
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Jack McGurk is a fictional boy detective in a series of novels by Edmund Wallace Hildick.
The group of pre-teen detectives is led by 10-year-old Jack P. McGurk. Members of the McGurk Detective Agency included Joey Rockaway, Willie “The Nose” Sandowskey, Wanda Greig, “Brains” Bellingham, and later, Mari Yoshemura.
The series started with The Nose Knows in 1974 (ISBN 0448057212) and continued through 24 volumes to the final adventure The Case of the Wiggling Wig in 1996 (ISBN 0689800827).
THE CASE OF THE BASHFUL BANK ROBBER by E.W. Hildick (Macmillan, $8.95), illustrated by Lisl Weil. The five detectives in this case are headed by McGurk, who has appeared in 10 other books (so he is obviously an experienced sleuth). This time he is teaching his followers to be properly observant via a vitally important training exercise called McGurk's Game. It proves very useful when the young sleuths read about some local bank robberies and decide to prevent them. There's plenty of humor and suspense here and, after a dismaying series of setbacks, the youthful detectives are ultimately successful. Joan Kahn New York Times 26th April 1981
