NEIL FLAMBE AND THE MARCO POLO MURDERS

Book ID/图书代码： 07500010B37146

English Summary/英文概要： Fourteen-year-old wunderchef Neil Flambé can cook anything, and patrons pay top dollar and wait months for reservations at his tiny boutique restaurant. What many of Neil’s patrons don’t know, however, is that he’s also a budding detective, code-named “The Nose.” It all started when he used his knowledge of cooking and his incredible sense of smell to acquit his mother’s client of murder. Now, however, some of the best chefs in town are turning up dead, the cops are stumped, and the crime scenes aren’t helping. The only real clues are a mysterious smell and some equally mysterious notes — in Italian! — that have something to do with the great explorer Marco Polo. As more and more chefs fall prey to the killer, and more and more notes turn up, Neil finds himself working not only to solve the murders, but to eliminate himself as the prime suspect!

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 融合歷史軼聞、烹飪廚藝、犯罪推理的加拿大當紅暢銷青少年小說

介紹一本加拿大當紅的小說，由寫作風格非常多元的作者Kevin Sylvester，創作的一本融合歷史軼聞、烹飪廚藝、犯罪推理的青少年故事，故事情節像是結合了日本動漫《名偵探柯南》和皮克斯的《料理鼠王》。Kevin的故事因為大受好評和豐富的想像力引起讀者共鳴，其受歡迎的程度使得本書出版社『Key Porter』接到多家電視電影製片公司爭相諮詢其影片版權。
Kevin Sylvester是加拿大獲獎的漫畫家及插圖家，也是一位相當受歡迎的廣播節目主持人。不論他的小說、插畫和成人非小說，在《多倫多星報》《加拿大文學評論》均受到廣大迴響，尤其在繪畫天份，他的插圖作品為慈善機構籌募大筆義款。而在這本書中，讀者可以見到作者的插圖為這系列的故事，添加了許多樂趣及特色。
本書一開始作者以歷史背景，西元1324年馬可波羅臨死之前遺留的筆記本，帶出一連串的謎團。隨後筆記本裡記載的秘密，卻引來一位威尼斯圖書館的管理員遭到謀殺，而這個秘密也隨著歷史洪流消逝，直到現在開啟了這本故事的序幕......

14歲的Neil Flambé是一位天才廚師，他開的餐廳時常高朋滿座一位難求。除此之外，Neil對他的廚藝及各種犯罪事件有著異常靈敏的嗅覺，他特有的敏銳觀察力，常常能破解一些不可思議的案件，所以他也有個代號『The Nose』。警方的巡佐督察Nakamura (中村)，也非常仰賴Neil的能力以藉此偵破許多犯罪。
在一樁又一樁許多第一流的廚師被謀殺後，Nakamura好不容易請到Neil協助，憑著敏銳的嗅覺及對氣味分辨的超強記憶度，Neil用嗅覺還原案發現場，以他特有的天份，投入嫌犯的思路與模式中，然而他將循著一種氣味的唯一線索，發現一段被刻意隱藏的歷史、馬可波羅的秘密，還有兇手的真實身份......(CL)

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Review
Grade 5–8—Neil Flambé is an interesting teen—a passionate chef, ignored son of a lawyer mom and an ad-executive dad, overwhelmed student, and the "Nose" to Inspector Nakamura, who relies heavily on him to help solve cases. When chefs across town turn up murdered, Neil sniffs some strange spices at the crime scenes, but he can’t quite put his finger on what they are, which is unusual for him. When he stumbles upon a journal once owned by Marco Polo, he gives it to his cousin to transcribe. As the journal unfolds, it becomes more and more evident that the deaths are somehow tied to Marco Polo’s long-ago journey to take a princess to her betrothed. Polo went to his grave with that secret, thinking no one would ever discover his terrible mistake. A romance between Isabella, the daughter of a chef, and Neil is a little mature for a 14-year-old but it probably won’t bother middle school readers. This would be a great book-club choice. Participants could create the perfect seven-course meal as an accompaniment to discussing such an engaging and lively read.---Julie Shatterly, W.A. Bess Elementary School, Gastonia, NC, From School Library Journal

About the Author/作者介绍： Kevin Sylvester is an award-winning writer, illustrator and broadcaster. His illustrations have been seen in The Toronto Star, the Literary Review of Canada and on cbc.ca. Kevin is often heard on CBC Radio. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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