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Jonathon Prudence "Jack" McGurk is a fictional boy detective in a series of novels by Edmund Wallace Hildick.

Detective investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person

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Novel Narrative text, normally of a substantial length and in the form of prose describing a fictional and sequential story

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book.

Edmund Wallace Hildick (1925–2001) was a prolific children's book author, who wrote under the name E. W. Hildick. He wrote, amongst others, the Ghost Squad, Jim Starling, Birdy Jones, Jack McGurk and Lemon Kelly series.

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The group of pre-teen detectives is led by 10-year-old Jack P. McGurk. Members of the McGurk Detective Agency included Joey Rockaway, Willie "The Nose" Sandowsky, Wanda Greig, Gerald "Brains" Bellingham, and later, Mari Yoshimura. The series started with The Nose Knows in 1974 ( ISBN   0448057212) and continued through 24 volumes to the final adventure The Case of the Wiggling Wig in 1996 ( ISBN   0689800827).

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