Detectives Tatu and Patu: The Case of the Mysterious Divider

By Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen

Tatu and Patu’s wits are tested to the limits when the mysterious Divider strikes. Many blunders later, the mind-boggling truth is revealed: who, where and why?

When the mysterious Divider begins to harass the Kuurna family by dividing all kinds of objects, the Oddville boys put on their trench coats and hats and become detective Tatu and detective Patu. The new detectives decide to devise a plan and set up their detective agency into the playhouse in the Kuurna family’s yard. 

The game begins as Tatu and Patu get the chance to infiltrate Aada’s, the family’s daughter, birthday party in disguise, and track down the sneaky Divider. Who is the Divider? Where is he hiding? And why is he dividing? This puts in motion a chain of events that Tatu and Patu will surely not forget. 

Join the excitement and fun as the Oddville boys embark upon another curious adventure, and this time, through the entertaining genre of the detective story.

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About the author

Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen work together as children’s authors, illustrators, and graphic designers. For the young Finnish readers they are best known as the creators of the hilarious Oddville boys, Tatu and Patu, whose limitless imagination we can admire already in 23 titles to date. The riotous humour of these hugely popular illustrated books appeals to children and adults alike. Tatu and Patu: This is Finland won the Finlandia Junior prize in 2007, and in 2017 the authors were granted the Finland State Prize for Children’s Culture. In Finland Tatu and Patu books have sold over 1.3 million copies and the translation rights have been sold in 31 languages. Aino Havukainen was born in 1968. She graduated as a graphic designer from Lahti Institute of Design in 1992 and has worked as multimedia designer and as an AD in an advertising agency until the beginning of her free lance career in 1996.Sami Toivonen was born in 1971. He graduated also as a graphic designer from Lahti Institute of Design in 1994 and has worked free lance since 1996. He was awarded in 1989 with the Finnish Critics’ Association’s award “Boost for Criticism” for his comic strips, given annually to a young artist for a fresh artistic breakthrough.