{"product_id":"2940045163712","title":"Inspector Dexter \u0026 the Case of the Missing Chocolate Pudding","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first book in the Inspector Dexter series -\u003cbr\u003eThe Case of the Missing Chocolate Pudding\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiddle school is tough on everyone but if you aren’t a good student, aren’t athletic and can’t play an instrument, what’s left? You become an amateur detective. Meet Dexter Poindexter – all elbows and knees and as graceful as a three-legged chair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a whole case of chocolate pudding disappears from the Gladys Purvey Hockings Middle School’s cafeteria, Dexter is on the case. He doesn’t have much to go on - just a partial footprint in the storage pantry, the help of an Austrian exchange student and his police detective grandfather’s wisdom. He has to sort through a motley bunch of suspects that include a gang of bullies, the football team, the band, a maintenance man with a secret, a new employee with a lazy eye, the cafeteria manager’s cousin and the school principal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Dexter has to go about the business of being a mediocre student with no athletic abilities while he dodges love sick middle school girls, unhappy Spanish teachers, underwear wedgies and cannon fire from Civil War re-enactors to solve the case of the missing chocolate pudding.\u003cbr\u003eDexter is a hero for all the kids who don’t fit in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kathryn Lehan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108107075824,"sku":"2940045163712","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940045163712_p0.jpg?v=1765232435","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940045163712","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}