My Selection — ‘Nate The Great’

by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

A young detective loves solving cases and eating pancakes

Cover of “Nate the Great” / Credit: Penguin Random House

For nearly 50 years, the 9-year-old detective who calls himself “Nate the Great” has been striding confidently forth to solve crimes dressed in a Sherlock Holmesian deerstalker’s cap and a trench coat worthy of Inspector Clouseau. And there’s…