Tom Sawyer, Detective

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn attempt to solve a mysterious murder which takes them on board a steamboat back to Arkansas, getting them tangled up with diamond thieves and the ghost of a missing burglar. In this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time, Tom and Huck find themselves with Uncle Silas and his family again (see "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"). Like the two preceding novels, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. Mark Twain was greatly inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writings, and Tom and Huck's relationship is compared by many to that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is the fourth book in the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn series, following The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894).