'The Show to End All Shows' a finalist for the John Spray Mystery Award

Awfully nice to learn this morning that The Show to End all Shows is up for the John Spray Mystery Award, administered by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. The novel is the sequel and conclusion to "Master Melville's Medicine Show,"

the story that began with The Boy in the Box. The winner will be announced at the centre's big do on November 18, but in the meantime I look forward to digging into the books of some of the other finalists.