『ミステリではじめる英語100万語』という本の中で紹介されていた『Nate the Great』。 ハードボイルドだけど，パンケーキをこよなく愛するお茶目な少年探偵，Nateが活躍するシリーズです。 いつか原書で，スティーヴン・キング，ジェフリー･ディーヴァー，ジャック・カーリイを読むために・・・はじめの一歩です。

Shortly after a breakfast generously supplied with pancakes, Natethe Great got an urgent call from Annie. "I lost a picture," said Annie. "Can you help me find it?" "Of course," said Nate. "I have found lost balloons, books, slippers, chickens. Even a lost goldfish. Now I, Nate the Great, will find a lost picture." "Oh, good," Annie said. Nate, with the cool detachment of a Sam Spade, immediately plunges into his new and baffling case. Getting all the facts, asking the right questions, narrowing down the suspects. Nate, the boy detective who "likes to work alone," solves the mystery and tracks down the culprit. In the process he also discovers the whereabouts of Super Hex, the missing cat.