Cover Unveiled for The World’s Greatest Detective

By Maryann Yin 

Greatest Detective Cover (GalleyCat)

The cover has been unveiled for The World’s Greatest Detective by Caroline Carlson. HarperCollins Children’s Books has scheduled the release date for May 2017.

According to Carlson’s blog post, Júlia Sardà created the illustration for the cover. We’ve embedded the full image for the jacket art above—what do you think?

Carlson intended this middle grade project to be an “homage to some of my favorite murder mystery tales by authors like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Ellen Raskin.” What’s your favorite mystery novel?