YOU MAY NOT HAVE GASPED AND
FAINTED WHILE READING THESE
OTHER THRILLING TALES
OF PALS IN PERIL
Whales on Stilts!
The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen
Jasper Dash and the Flame-Pits of Delaware
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Text copyright © 2010 by M. T. Anderson
Illustrations copyright © 2010 by Kurt Cyrus
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Anderson, M. T.
Agent Q, or the smell of danger! / M. T. Anderson ; illustrations by Kurt Cyrus.—1st ed.
p. cm.—(A pals in peril tale)
Summary: As Lily, Katie, and Jasper try to return home after their adventures in Delaware, they face a protoplasmic monster, sleeping gas, a runaway rice cart, sentient lobsters, and spies of the Awful and Adorable Autarch of Dagsboro.
ISBN 978-1-4169-8640-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
[1. Adventure and adventurers—Fiction. 2. Spies—Fiction. 3. Humorous stories.
4. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Cyrus, Kurt, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.A54395Age 2010
[Fic]—dc22
2009051199
ISBN 978-1-4391-5609-4 (eBook)
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