Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain . It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like the two preceding novels, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. However, in an opening note in the book preceding the first chapter (as republished by Gutenberg Press), the author states: Strange as the incidents of this story are, they are not inventions, but facts—even to the public confession of the accused. I take them from an old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors and transfer the scenes to America. I have added some details, but only a couple of them are important ones. — M. T.