The Nab-a-Baddie Club (vol. I)

Children's Books Adventure / Crime

Best-selling author Martin Muser with his first children’s crime story

Miro and Pola are best friends. That stupid Linus says they’re in love. But that’s not true. Pola thinks normal school is boring. She’d much rather attend a detective school! But when it’s time to go on the big class trip and Linus suddenly disappears, things get really exciting, even in Pola’s school. Because Miro and Pola uncover unbelievable secrets. The investigation undertaken by the Nab-a-Baddie Club, founded on the spot, would make any police commissioner go green with envy!

  • Anarchic and hilarious: reading fun is guaranteed with these sleuths
  • A crime story with slightly unusual baddies – and lots of wit and excitement
  • Nominated for the German Children's Book Prize 2025
Martin Muser

Martin Muser is a free-lance author, dramatic adviser and lecturer, and lives in Berlin. In addition to writing scripts for German TV he enjoys writing children’s books. His best-selling cult series KANNAWONIWASEIN was published from 2018 to 2020.

Claudia Weikert

Claudia Weikert works as a freelance illustrator in Wiesbaden. She mostly – and successfully illustrates picture and childrens books. And when shes not doing that, she works as a multimedia editor for the ZDF childrens television online programme.

The Nab-a-Baddie Club (vol. I)

Best-selling author Martin Muser with his first children’s crime story

Miro and Pola are best friends. That stupid Linus says they’re in love. But that’s not true. Pola thinks normal school is boring. She’d much rather attend a detective school! But when it’s time to go on the big class trip and Linus suddenly disappears, things get really exciting, even in Pola’s school. Because Miro and Pola uncover unbelievable secrets. The investigation undertaken by the Nab-a-Baddie Club, founded on the spot, would make any police commissioner go green with envy!

  • Anarchic and hilarious: reading fun is guaranteed with these sleuths
  • A crime story with slightly unusual baddies – and lots of wit and excitement
  • Nominated for the German Children's Book Prize 2025
Bibliographic Data
128 pages, ISBN: 978-3-423-76517-6
First published 2024