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== Fanfics ==
== Fan Works ==
* ''[[Detective Story]]'' Has Keito, a 7 year old boy with the deductive abilities of a 26 year old detective (well, sort of, the 26 year old detective who raised him is still more cunning and smarter that him) See also ''[[Born Detective]]''
* ''[[Detective Story]]'' Has Keito, a 7 year old boy with the deductive abilities of a 26 year old detective (well, sort of, the 26 year old detective who raised him is still more cunning and smarter that him) See also ''[[Born Detective]]''


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* ''[[The Boxcar Children]]'': The titular children.
* ''[[The Boxcar Children]]'': The titular children.
* Jill Pinkwater's ''The Disappearance of Sister Perfect'' has [[Meaningful Name|Sherelee Holmes]], who, after deducing that her runaway sister has joined a cult, poses as a rich teenager several years older than herself and infiltrates the organization.
* Jill Pinkwater's ''The Disappearance of Sister Perfect'' has [[Meaningful Name|Sherelee Holmes]], who, after deducing that her runaway sister has joined a cult, poses as a rich teenager several years older than herself and infiltrates the organization.
* Walter "Ramses" Emerson was an example (a master of disguise among other things) until, over the course of the series, he grew up. He is the child of Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, a [[Battle Couple]] pair of Egyptologists and incidental detectives in a series by Elizabeth Peters. Ramses has since grown up, gotten married, and produced his own frighteningly precocious children. His mother feels it serves him right.
* Walter "Ramses" Emerson was an example (a master of disguise among other things) until, over the course of the series, he grew up. He is the child of [[Amelia Peabody]] and Radcliffe Emerson, a [[Battle Couple]] pair of Egyptologists and incidental detectives in a series of books by Elizabeth Peters. Ramses has since grown up, gotten married, and produced his own frighteningly precocious children. His mother feels it serves him right.
** Note that in the following passage, rescuing his parents, Ramses is about eight or nine:
** Note that in the following passage, rescuing his parents, Ramses is about eight or nine:
{{quote|"Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared: we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight feet thick. Fortunately I brought along a little nitroglycerine--"
{{quote|"Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared: we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight feet thick. Fortunately I brought along a little nitroglycerine--"