The Case of the Missing Deed

Five cousins Genevieve, Sebastian, Claire, Alex, and Olivia have to help their grandmother find the missing deed to the familyrs"s cottage on Otter Island, off the coast of British Columbia. And itrs"s urgent because a mining company wants to buy Grandmars"s property as part of a big development. Grandma does not want to sell, but if she is to keep her property, she has to prove her ownership. The cousins have little to go on. All they know is that their late grandfather left clues to where the deed was hidden in his old recipe book. But which recipes hold the clues? And once they figure out the recipes and start following them, what are they to do with the key, the prism, the knitting needles, and other strange objects they find? Ellen Schwartz serves up a yummy stew of recipes, clues, suspicious alliances, coding, and rivalry, along with a big helping of fun in the first book in the new series,Teaspoon Detectives.

Ellen Schwartz was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in New Jersey. She moved to Canada in 1972. She has written several books for children, including Avalanche Dance and Stealing Home. Ellen Schwartz and her husband, Bill, live in Burnaby, BC, and have two grown daughters - one of whom is a professional chef.