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Half Moon Investigations may refer to:


* [[Half Moon Investigations (Novel)]], a novel by Eoin Colfer released in 2006
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* [[Half Moon Investigations (TV Series)]], a TV series run on the BBC from 2009 and based upon the popular novel
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* [[Half Moon Investigations (Comics)]], a series of comics based upon the popular novel
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| author = [[Eoin Colfer]]
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| country = UK, Ireland
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| genre = Mystery
| publisher = U.S.-[[Miramax Books]],
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| release_date = UK hardcover-June 1,[[2006 in literature|2006]] UK paperback-July 5th ,[[2007 in literature|2007]] U.S. hardcover- March [[2006 in literature|2006]],
| media_type = Print (hardcover & paperback)
| pages = UK hardcover-320pgs. U.S. hardcover-290pgs.,
| isbn = UK hardcover-0141382708, U.S. hardcover-0786849576
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'''''Half Moon Investigations''''' is a [[novel]] by the Irish author [[Eoin Colfer]]. It was released in United States in March [[2006 in literature|2006]] and was released in the UK and Ireland on 1 June 2006, and the paperback edition was released in the UK 5 July 2007. It has also been adapted as a television series, aired on the BBC from January 2009.

==Novel==
===Plot summary===
Fletcher Moon, named Half-Moon by his peers because of his short stature, is a twelve year old boy attending Saint Jerome's Elementary and Middle School.

Since he was three, Fletcher has had a knack for solving mysteries, forming a bond with local police Sergeant Murt Hourihan. Knowing this, Half-Moon's classmate April comes to him for help in finding a lock of hair that she believes stolen. April leads ''Les Jeunes Etudiantes'', a group of well-known "girly girls". Fletcher, willing to take on any case, agrees to help her and starts off by investigating all suspects. His investigations eventually get him threatened with a hurl by a thirteen year old named Red Sharkey. Fletcher holds Red as a prime suspect due to his family's criminal reputation.

Fletcher, without permission, looks up the Sharkey family's criminal history on Murt's police computer files. This leads him to discover a series of unsolved crimes that have occurred in his county. A sound outside causes him to leave the house where Fletcher is assaulted by a [[hurley stick]]. Waking up in a hospital with a cast on his arm, he realizes an engraved band on the hurley stick that struck him has left him with Red's name pressed into his flesh. Fletcher visits April's cousin May to photograph the evidence left from his assault. After realizing he had gone to the wrong house, he finds May's lucky tap-dancing costume being burnt. The anesthetic he experienced at the hospital cause Fletcher to pass out in the backyard. He awakes to find a torch in his hand and all evidence for the arson pointing to him. Following an interrogation by Murt, Fletcher is bailed out by Red Sharkey. Red claims he was framed for the hurley stick assault.

The next time Fletcher wakes up he finds himself in the Sharkey household. A Sharkey-style makeover and keeping company with Red shows Fletcher how unpleasant it can be to be a Sharkey: he is warned to commit no crime upon his first meeting with a policeman in this disguise. Half-Moon and Red team up to solve the chain of mysteries within 24 hours.

Following a hunch to April's house, the boy detectives discover the truth behind ''Les Jeunes Etudiantes'': their true goal is power over boys. Three recent expulsions from Saint Jerome's are down to this crafty group, and Red and Fletcher decide they must be stopped. Unfortunately, ''Les Jeunes'' are no fools, and they manage to imprison our unfortunate heroes in a cellar. An ingenious plan and a magnetized horn lead them to escape, only to discover that their newfound freedom is in fact partially down to May. No matter what the cause, liberty has come just in time to allow a rush to the house of the principle, and the foiling of the latest plan of ''Les Jeunes Etudiantes''; Herod Sharkey stands accused of violence, and Red and Fletcher have previously heard the foul girls practicing the lines to say in their accusation of him. Red is able to send [[texting|text messages]] to the present police officer — messages including the lines that he knows the girls will say. The police officer, Murt, puts two and two together, and at least some of the day is saved. ''Les Jeunes Etudiantes'' are exposed and, Herod Sharkey is found innocent, saving him from expulsion.

Fletcher Moon knows that this still does not solve the mysteries that included his assault. He goes to a secret informant, and in exchange for Murt's police account password, receives the information that he needed. He finds that the link between the crimes was the school, Saint Jerome's. Having looked at information held within Saint Jerome's, it turns out that the affected victims were directly and indirectly linked to the school [[talent show]]. After trying to protect May from being affected by the mysterious criminal, Fletcher reveals that he has realized what the answer is at last. All the victims of these crimes had, after all, been ranked higher than May in the talent show. To save his daughter from the humiliation, May's father steps forward as the perpetrator. Fletcher's mother shows her strength as it seems May's father might be unwilling to accept his defeat; she comes to her son's rescue and knocks the man to the ground. Sergeant Murt hails the mysteries as solved.

===Critical reception===
''[[Newsround]]'' called the book "really exciting" and said "Once you've read page one you'll be hooked".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6240000/newsid_6249700/6249734.stm |title=Book Review: Half Moon Investigations |accessdate=8.1.09 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date=11.9.07 |work=Newsround |publisher=BBC}}</ref>

=== Covers ===
<gallery>
Image:Halfmooninvestigations.jpg|U.S. edition
Image:Half Moon Investigation UK.jpg|European/ Australian edition
</gallery>

===Trivia===
{{Trivia|date=January 2009}}
* As Red and Half-Moon listened and exposed the set-up by the ''Les Jeunes Etudiantes'', Murt mentions he has a client named "Art Fowler", which is a reference to [[Artemis Fowl]], the titular character from another series also written by Eoin Colfer.

* The final words of the book are "You're half right." — a nod to the nickname of the main character and the title of the book.

==Television series==

''Main Article: [[Half Moon Investigations (TV Series)]]''

A 13 part [[BBC]] [[television series]] was filmed in [[Scotland]] over the summer months of 2008 in a disused [[high school]] building in [[Bellshill]], [[North Lanarkshire]], directed by Simon Hynd. The first episode replaced ''[[Grange Hill]]'' on 5 January 2009.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gsv6b</ref>

===Series 1 (2009)===
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|ShortSummary=Newly qualified from Bob Bernstein's online school of detecting, Fletcher 'Half' Moon is eager for his first case. When the winner of the art club competition has one of his paintings stolen, it transpires that this is not the only recent theft at the St Jerome's school, and the new headmistress, Principal Quinn, is already on the case. According to school reporter Mia, the prime suspect is Red Sharkey, whose family members are no strangers to being top of a suspect list. But when Moon realises that he is following the wrong trail, an unlikely alliance is forged and a new detective duo is born.
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|Title=Text Bully
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|ShortSummary=Agent Mobile phones are going missing at St Jerome's. Hungry for their first proper case, Moon and Red are on to it. They soon realise that their thief is also sending abusive texts, but not before friends fall out and alliances are destroyed by the text bully. But will Moon and Red be able to find the thief's identity before complete anarchy sets in?
Meanwhile, Moon's sister Hazel longs for Goth Dogboy to notice her, but he only has eyes for Red's sister, Genie. When he offers the perennially skint Genie a ticket for a gig, she vows to somehow get the money. Hazel is on her tail. But will Hazel's quest to also attract Dogboy's attention be a lost cause?
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|EpisodeNumber=03
|Title=The Purple Pool
|OriginalAirDate=January 19, 2009
|ProdCode=b00h5m4r[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h5m4r]
|ShortSummary=A swimming trial is sabotaged, a betting ring is busted, and pint-sized private eye, Fletcher Moon is forced to conquer his fear of water. When someone tries to sabotage St Jerome's star swimmer, Harriet 'The Fish' Thompson's, training programme by putting purple dye in the school swimming pool, private detective Fletcher Moon is determined to find the culprit. His fear of water, however, threatens to jeopardise this aqua-based investigation. Much to ace reporter Mia's amusement and Moon's embarrassment, it looks like he may fail to conquer his fear. Meanwhile, headmistress Quinn accuses Harriet's fellow swimmer, Shell, of the crime, and Moon's partner Red is also implicated. Can Moon correct this injustice? And why are The Pinks so keen that the swimming trial be cancelled?
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==See Also==

* [[Half Moon Investigations (TV Series)]]
* [[Eoin Colfer]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
*[http://www.halfmooninvestigations.co.uk/comic/ Comic strip created for Half Moon Investigations]
*[http://www.halfmooninvestigations.com/ The book's official website]
*[http://www.eoincolfer.com/ Eoin Colfer's official website] ([http://www.eoincolfer.com/home.htm skip intro])

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