Half Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer

Author:Eoin Colfer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780141925387
Publisher: Penguin Publishing
Published: 2008-10-23T10:00:00+00:00

PROOF OR RESULTS?

Back at Chez Sharkey, Herod had a car door propped up against the garden wall.

‘Go!’ shouted Genie, clicking the button on a large stopwatch.

Herod pulled a flat metal ruler from the leg of his jeans, sliding it between the window and frame. He jiggled the ruler for a few moments and the car door lock popped.

‘Clear,’ he shouted, stepping back.

Genie stopped the watch. ‘Fifteen seconds. Not bad. Keep practising.’

She noticed us coming through the back gate.

‘Ah, will you look who it is. Well, boys, any developments in the case?’

‘We’ve established a link between the assault and the robberies,’ replied Red. The exact words I had used with April.

‘Well put,’ I said.

Genie held out the stopwatch. ‘The clock is ticking, boys. Better get back to business. Red, you haven’t rehearsed since this mess started, and we have a title to defend.’

I followed Red into the house.

‘Title?’

‘School talent show. I was Elvis last year. The Early Years. This year I’m doing Vegas.’

I remembered. Another reason why the girls loved Red. He could sing and, even more importantly, he would sing.

When we reached the bedroom, my iBook’s browser was open on an Internet shopping page.

‘Were you on the net?’ I asked Red.

Before he could answer, Genie pushed into the room past us.

‘I was – just buying some clothes from Paris,’ she explained, quitting the site.

‘Don’t you need a credit card for that?’

‘I have one,’ she said, tossing me the plastic rectangle. ‘Maxed out, I’m afraid.’

This didn’t bother me much, until I noticed the name on the card.

‘This is my dad’s!’ I blurted. ‘You stole it from my room.’

‘Hey, we’re family now, Watson. What’s yours is mine.’

‘But this card is for emergencies only.’

Genie hopped up from the chair and grabbed my waving hands. She waltzed us both around the room. ‘It is an emergency, Watson. The autumn—winter season is upon us and I’m still wearing spring-summer clothes.’

I was still twirling when Genie sneaked out the door.

‘You need to watch my sister,’ commented Red, steering me to the chair. ‘She’d steal the ham out of your sandwich.’

I ran a quick virus sweep on the iBook and found that Genie had managed to infect the hard drive with a minor virus. I ran the disk-repair program, hoping that none of my files had been corrupted. Red sat, watching the program run, for about four seconds before his natural energy began bursting out through his extremities. First his knee began jittering, then his toes, then his fingers began drumming a beat on the desk.

‘Red, please.’

‘What?’

‘I’m working here.’

‘I’m not stopping you. Anyway, what work? You’re looking at a screen. How long are you going to be?’

I shrugged. ‘I don’t know. Why don’t you have a game of hurling?’

Red elbowed me. ‘Someone stole my hurl, detective.’

I unstrapped my cast, laying it on the desk. ‘That’s right. How could I forget?’ My arm was still bruised, but the pain only flared if I clenched my fist. So I avoided clenching my fist.

Red’s entire being was eager for action. ‘There must be something I can do?’

I pointed at the mass of files on the floor.

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