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Strange goings-on at the Westside Museum of Rare Art Treasures. The new visiting exhibit is stolen without leaving a clue, police are baffled, quite frankly. Who has taken the statues, paintings and jewellery and stuff? Can Bruno Penny solve the mystery? Norbert de Strangle, international criminal mastermind, thinks not! *AUTHOR'S REVIEW*I wanted Bruno Penny to be a completely normal boy in unusual circumstances. He does not have any special powers or abilities apart from being smart and being able to think things through.And he is not an orphan or in a care home and he hasn't lost his parents or travelled into a mysterious land. Everytime he does something, he has to worry about his parents' reaction to it as well and what they will think of things when they find out.But as much as I kept Bruno Penny so normal, I really went to town on Norbert de Strangle. Writing the villain was excellent. Norbert gets to say horrible things about fine art and is thoroughly nasty to the henchmen.So much so, that when it looks like the henchmen are going to be caught by the police, Norbert immediately starts the computer off searching for new henchmen.Residents of Oxford might recognise some of the street names. Danbury Road, instead of Banbury and Geaumont instead of Beaumont. The Ashmolean Museum really is a walk along Banbury Road and turn right at Beaumont Street.But it had to be an alternate reality because of the super gadgets like the Transpositional Transporter Curtain, which take you anywhere you want to go - as long as you know the postcode!And the super computer which can supply a steaming plate of fish and chips and anything else you might need.For the rest, you will have to find out for yourself as you enter the perfectly normal world of Bruno Penny, Boy Detective!