Nate the Great and the sticky case

Dear mother, I am on a sticky case. When I find something big that is small I will be back. Love, Nate the great."" The big thing that's small is friend Claude's missing stegosaurus stamp, and the search for it takes Nate to a yard sale where Rosamond is selling cat hairs for a penny a piece and then to a museum to research the stegosaurus: ""He lived a long time ago. He had two brains. I, Nate the Great, wished that I had two brains and that one of them would solve the case."" But only after his dog Sludge inspires Nate to think about the sticky side of the stamp does Nate find the missing stegosaurus--on the shoe sole of Pip, who'd visited Claude on a rainy day when the dinosaur stamps were scattered about. As usual, Sharmat plants and dovetails clues as cannily as any crime writer, and Nate proves once again that one sharp six-year-old brain is all it takes to stay on top of the action. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.