The Claw Of The Bear Analysis

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The Claw of the Bear is about a young teenager who is 15 years old named Jimmy Atkinson Who lives in alaska with his dad. while he is living in alaska a famous documentarian comes and asks Jimmy to film about the bears in the park he lives in. When all of the sudden a couple gets murdered during their vacation here they automatically assume it's bears but when Jimmy further analyzes the scene he realizes this was no bears doing it was an actual human who caused it . Jimmy then takes on the investigation with his friend Arthur and they get clues and step by step get closer to solving the mystery of the murder. While they are solving it more people get murdered this time it was a family named the bancrofts. This led Jimmy to suspect someone who

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