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Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle

Black Duck is set in the late 1920s during prohibition (alcohol is illegal) and bootlegging (illegally getting alcohol to the community– quite dangerous). Ruban and Jeddy are two teenage boys who find a dead body, with a bullet hole in the neck, on the beach. After they tell adults, the body disappears, but the questions remain. The story gets more intriguing because Jeddy’s dad is a police officer. What kind of trouble have these boys encountered?

Black Duck is a mystery with many dangerous people looking for a “ticket” that was supposed to be on the dead man. Who has the ticket? Who is involved in the bootlegging? Who is innocent? Who is guilty? This book reads like a television crime show.