A review by portybelle
The Titanic Detective Agency by Lindsay Littleson

5.0

This is an exciting historical novel featuring characters based on real passengers on the Titanic. Young Bertha is determined to find some mysteries to solve while she is on the crossing to her new life in America and together with Madge, forms the Collyer-Watt Detective Agency. They are convinced there is something odd about the way Mr Hoffman behaves with his children Lolo and Momon so that's their first investigation. A Swedish teenager Johan needs help interpreting a treasure map he has found, so there's another case. Their detection efforts are interrupted by the fateful collision with the iceberg, a familiar story to adults but perhaps not to young readers. Lindsay Littleson brings the danger and terror of that night to life through the eyes of her young characters. With mystery, excitement, adventure and danger, I'm sure this is a book kids will love. The author rounds off the story beautifully resolving all the mysteries and explaining what happened next to the significant characters in the book. I particularly liked the photos of the passengers we read about, which really brought home that they were real people, not just characters in a book. First class children's fiction.