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{ The Series }

While Author Eve Titus only wrote five books of the famous mouse detective with the visual help of Illustrator Paul Galdone, those five books have continued to delight children as well as adults in generations to come. Beginning in 1958 with Basil of Baker Street, the books took our hero on many adventures throughout parts of the English countryside, Switzerland, the Orient, Mexico, and lastly the smoldering plains of the American states of Texas and Arizona. Author Cathy Hapka continued Basil's adventures with Illustrator Dave Mottram in the following: Basil and the Big Cheese Cook-Off, Basil and the Royal Dare, and Basil and the Library Ghost.

Art by Paul Galdone

  • Basil of Baker Street (from Goodreads): "Basil--famous sleuth of mousedom--lived in the cellar of Sherlock Holmes' house. A devoted admirer of the great detective, he had learned his craft by listening at the feet of Holmes himself. The Mystery of the Missing Twins was one of the strangest cases in Basil's career. He had only a few crumbs of clues with which to find solutions to such baffling questions as: Who had masterminded the plot? Where were the twins, Angela and Agatha, being kept?"

  • Basil and the Lost Colony (From Amazon): Basil of Baker Street—mouse detective genius—is off on a perilous expedition leading thirty-two mice up a towering mountain. Their objective: to locate and rescue a famous colony of mice that have been missing for six centuries!

  • Basil and the Pygmy Cats (From Goodreads): The famous English mouse detective travels to the Orient hoping to solve the mystery of whether there actually is a land inhabited by pygmy cats.

  • Basil in Mexico (From Amazon): Basil—the famous sleuth of mousedom—has learned a great deal living in Sherlock Holmes's cellar. Now, his sleuthing skills are being put to the test on a wild trip to Mexico! First, mousedom becomes frantic as mice are cracking their teeth on phony cheese made of concrete.

  • Basil in the Wild West (From Simon & Schuster): Basil's number-one suspect is Monterey Jack, one of America's Most Wanted mouse outlaws, a wily and dangerous foe! Basil, his faithful companion Dr. Dawson, and their loyal pony from CLOPS (Cheese Lovers Official Pony Service) take off for the burning desert chase.

  • Basil and the Big Cheese Cook-Off (From Amazon): Basil the mouse detective is called to Paris when the organizers of the Great Cheese Cook-off (an international culinary competition) start receiving threats against the event. Who could want to deprive all of mousedom of one of its tastiest nights?

  • Basil and the Royal Dare (From Amazon): With Sherlock Holmes away on a case, Basil and Doctor Dawson find themselves at loose ends until an urgent message arrives: Basil’s services are required by the noblemice of Marlborough House!

  • Basil and the Library Ghost (From Amazon): Basil of Baker’s Street, the masterful mouse detective who studied under Sherlock Holmes, is on his way to a school reunion with his old friends from Ratcliffe College. Along for the trip is his steadfast companion, Doctor Dawson. But all is not well, as they soon learn that the dastardly Ratigan has escaped from prison in London. Could the rat possibly be planning revenge against his old nemesis, Basil himself?

  • The Great Mouse Detective Mastermind Collection (From Amazon): Basil—the detective mastermind of the mouse world—lives in the cellar of Sherlock Holmes’s house. A devoted admirer of the great detective, he has learned his craft by listening at the feet of Holmes himself. Join Basil and his friend, Dr. Dawson, they solve some of their most baffling cases in this collectible boxed set!

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