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Summary: Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy
Review: I have read all the Sammy Keyes books (including the Psycho Kitty Queen), and this one remains my all-time favorite! Sammy and Marissa go to Hollywood to find Sammy's mom on a school holiday. They find Lady Lana, but she's not quite as they expected! She's living in a mansion with a bunch of other wannabe-stars, and the very night that Sammy and Marissa arrive, a woman dies...or is murdered? But why would someone want to kill her? That's what Sammy is out to discover before anyone else gets hurt.
This book kept me enthralled from the very beginning. The mystery and the "answer" in this book were far more interesting, exciting, and tense than any other Sammy book (and I love them all!)! It's a must-read for all mystery-lovers! It will hook you on Sammy Keyes!
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Summary: Oh so good
Review: Mystery? Check. Action? Check. Spunky girl named Sammy? Check.You need to read this book. Very interesting plot. Not a boring page in the whole book.
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Summary: SAMMY KEYES AND THE HOLLYWOOD MUMMY
Review: Okay, I am a pretty new Sammy Keyes fan, but I love these books! This one was exciting and had me going until the very end. I wasn't sure who to blame and you know, Sammy caught on before I did. Now, given the fact that she's 12 and I'm not....plus the fact that I've read a lot of mysteries and should be able to read between the lines, that is saying a lot. Sammy will keep fans and readers on the edges of their seats, wondering what she will do next and breathlessly hoping that she won't get caught. Her journey, with friend Marissa, to Hollywood in this story is great....I love the detail given about the people who hang around in the bus depots. Also, the appearance of her mother (Lady Lana) was GREAT...as fans know, she doesn't appear in the other books, so this was a great way to find out about her. This book is definitely a great choice for mystery fans!
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Summary: Sammy gets better every time!
Review: Okay, I am a pretty new Sammy Keyes fan, but I love these books! This one was exciting and had me going until the very end. I wasn't sure who to blame and you know, Sammy caught on before I did. Now, given the fact that she's 12 and I'm not....plus the fact that I've read a lot of mysteries and should be able to read between the lines, that is saying a lot. Sammy will keep fans and readers on the edges of their seats, wondering what she will do next and breathlessly hoping that she won't get caught. Her journey, with friend Marissa, to Hollywood in this story is great....I love the detail given about the people who hang around in the bus depots. Also, the appearance of her mother (Lady Lana) was GREAT...as fans know, she doesn't appear in the other books, so this was a great way to find out about her. This book is definitely a great choice for mystery fans!
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Summary: ~ The Book You Can't Put Down~
Review: Sammy Keyes is a series of books that not very many people look at and think that looks like a good book. But don't judge a book by its cover! Sammy Keyes is a thirteen old girl who always seems to run into mysteries! Sammy lives with her grandmother because her mother left her to go to Hollywood and become an actress. In one of the books The Hollywood Mummy, Sammy wants to visit her mother. So she and her best friend Marissa get on a bus from Santa Martina to go to Hollywood! When they arrive Sammy's mom isn't very excited because she told her boss Max that she was twenty-five years old, single, and had no children! So she tells Max that they are her nieces. What will Sammy do to find ou the mystery? Well I'm not going to tell you so read the book yourself. Trust me its worth it ! You won't put it down! I like this book because the author put alot of thought in her writing. They are better than other mysteries like Nancy Drew because Sammy is younger and more clever!
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Summary: They keep getting better!
Review: The books in this series just keep getting better. This one was so exciting! I just couldn't put it down when I got near the end. In the beginning of the book, Sammy and her best friend, Marissa hop a bus to Hollywood to try to bring Sammy's mother back. She went off to Hollywood a year ago to try to become a star. Sammy finds out that her mother, Lana, has completely changed her look, and had a fake ID made up saying she's 25 and born on Valentine's day, when really she's 35. She obviously can't have a 13 year old daughter, so she tells everyone else in her acting agency that Sammy and Marissa are her nieces. But that night, an actress that looks just like Lana, and is trying out for the same part that Lana is trying out for, is murdered. Sammy suspects her mother of killing her and tries to find a way to prove that it wasn't her mother. Also, the head of the agency, Max Mueller has asked Lana to marry him, and he's 65 years old and still worships his wife who died 25 years ago. This book is soooo exciting, and I couldn't put it down! I definetely recommend this book to all mystery lovers and fans of the series. It's a great book!
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Summary: AMAZINGLY GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book is so good it's freaky. Feisty tomboy 13-year-old detective is back and better than ever! Along with her rich and prissy yet innocent and nice best friend Marissa, she tackles Hollywood to bring her movie-star-wannabe mother Lana back to reality. They find that she changed her name to Dominique Windsor, like some aristocrat. She knocked ten years off her age and even had a fake ID. But the man Lana is dating is the strangest part of all. And smart Sammy finds a little slip-up in the story of Lana's fellow actress's death...and she will find out who killed her no matter what!
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Summary: Sammy Storms Hollywood-Sammy keyes and the Hollywood Mummy
Review: This story begins when Sammy Keyes and her best friend, Marissa set out on a Greyhound to Hollywood, where Sammy's mother is a budding starlet, on the brink of success. When they arrive at the Spanish villa where she is staying, they are suprised to find a completely new woman in her place. Her mother has completely edited her persona to a girl by the name of Dominique Windsor, ten years younger, and without a daughter. Little did Sammy know, that was the smallest of suprises. The following morning, the woman in the next room is found dead, suffocated. Sammy is soon on the case, with Marissa and the fiesty maid named Hali. Trailing through the streets of Hollywood in a battered bug, Sammy has soon begun to untangle the murky mystery- only to find that her mother is the intended victim! Can she expose the culprit and save her mother in time? Read his exciting book to find out! I would highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys mystery and suspense mixed with a little humor,or who has read and liked the past Sammy Keyes books.
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Summary: A good read, however, don't be disapointed...
Review: Wendelin Van Draan once more draws us head first into the world of Sammy Keyes; thirteen year-old detedtive--unofficially of course. Sammy's mother ("Lady" Lana) left her to stake out success in Hollywood and Sammy has spent the last years with her Grandmother. However, Sammy is sick of waiting for her mom to get back and decides to do something about it. But when she arrives, Sammy is shocked to discover that her mother has shed 15 years off her age, changed her appearance and her name. But now that "Lady Lana" is "20" again, it would be rather suspicious if she had a 13 year old daughter, and Sammy's mom is all for sending her home on the next bus only to forget about her again. But in the midst of all this, one of actresses living in the same acting agency as Lana is murdered; suddenly, Sammy's mom is a suspect and a target and its up to Sammy to solve the twisted mystery of the Hollywood Mummy. Okay, so this book isn't as "grasping" as the other books. In some ways, it lacks character developement and is overloaded with plot. In other words, we don't know enough about all teh characters to take a deep interest in all that they are doing. Still worth reading for fans of the series however. If you haven't read teh other books, I suggest going back and reading the first one; Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief, which was much better. Happy reading always! -Lia
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Summary: A REALLY REALLY REALLY good book
Review: When my friend pointed out this book to me, I was like, no way am I going to read a book about a mummy. But as the saying goes,"don't juge a book by its cover". She sent me a copy,and I was hooked.When Sammy Keyes goes to Hollywood to find her runaway mom with her friend Merissa's hidious, flamango pink suit case (and Merissa herself) its ANYTHING but a happy reunion when Sammy gets caught up in a mistery. At 3:00 AM Sammy hears a misterious bumping in the next room. a few hours later, the woman in it is dead. A definite ***** mistery!!!
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