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Dear old Mrs Tuck has run the school canteen for years. But after a chain of nasty culinary upsets, she gets the chop and a slick new commercial caterer is appointed. Angelo Martinelli, junior private eye, smells a rat - and not just the dead one in the canteen. Is it sabotage, or is it a red herring? Can The Angel get to the bottom of the mystery that has the whole school on the run?

Dead Red is a saucy detective story from bestselling author Ruth Starke, full of humour and the kind of explosive jokes that children love. RUTH STARKE worked in public relations and travel marketing before turning to fiction writing in 1992. Since then she has published many books for young people, including the bestselling NIPS XI. Ruth lives in Adelaide where she teaches Professional English at Flinders University and creative writing at TAFE.