The Headless Mummy

The Headless Mummy
By: David Keane
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Joe Sherlock is in the fourth grade and he solves mysteries for $10 a day. His newest mystery is the disappearance of a 4000 year old head from a mummy that disappeared from the local museum. He has to solve the mystery before Mr. Klopper loses his job.

This is a great book to use when studying context clues. Throughout the book there are subtle hints that lead up to the final conclusion of the mystery. You can see if the students can figure it out before the ending and if they can't, they can go back through the book and write down the clues that they missed which would have helped them solve the mystery.