Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective
by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (Author) Mitchell Sharmat (Author) Martha Weston (Illustrator)
Nate, the great detective, and his dog, Sludge, are off to San Francisco!
They're going to visit Nate's cousin Olivia Sharp. She's a detective, too, and a very busy one. Olivia isn't around to solve her case number 22. Her client, Duncan, has lost his joke book. He tells Nate that if the book isn't found—and soon—the world will come to an end.
Nate takes the case. He and Sludge cruise up and down and around San Francisco in the limo, tracking down clues. Sticky, icky clues, big and small clues, all-around-the-town clues that take them to a pancake house, over the Golden Gate Bridge, and finally to a place that seems wrong but could be right.
Can Nate the Great keep the world from coming to an end? Can he solve his first out-of-town case?
Nate the Great Series—Summary and Book Order
Series: Nate the GreatReading level: 6+
Books in series: 31
Read in order? No
Tags: mystery humour family first chapter books friendship illustrated
Print series book list
Books in series order
1. Nate the Great (1972)2. Nate the Great Goes Under Cover (1974)
3. Nate the Great and the Lost List (1975)
4. Nate the Great and the Phony Clue (1977)
5. Nate the Great and the Sticky Case (1978)
6. Nate the Great and the Missing Key (1981)
7. Nate the Great and the Snowy Trail (1982)
8. Nate the Great and the Fishy Prize (1984)
9. Nate the Great Stalks Stupidweed (1986)
10. Nate the Great and the Boring Beach Bag (1987)
11. Nate the Great and the Halloween Hunt (1989)
12. Nate the Great Goes Down in the Dumps (1989)
13. Nate the Great and the Musical Note (1990)
14. Nate the Great and the Stolen Base (1992)
15. Nate the Great and the Mushy Valentine (1993)
16. Nate the Great and the Pillow Case (1993)
17. Nate the Great and the Tardy Tortoise (1995)
18. Nate the Great and the Crunchy Christmas (1996)
19. Nate the Great Saves the King of Sweden (1997)
20. Nate the Great and Me: The Case of the Fleeing Fang (1998)
21. Nate the Great and the Monster Mess (1999)
22. Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective (2000)
23. Nate the Great and the Big Sniff (2001)
24. Nate the Great on the Owl Express (2003)
25. Nate the Great Talks Turkey (2006)
26. Nate the Great and the Hungry Book Club (2009)
27. Nate the Great, Where Are You? (2014)
28. Nate the Great and the Missing Birthday Snake (2017)
29. Nate the Great and the Wandering Word (2018)
30. Nate the Great and the Earth Day Robot (2021)
31. Nate the Great and the Missing Tomatoes (2022)