Mall Madness by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Aladdin

Nancy stepped back to let the experts do their job. “Tell me if you find any clues,” she told Bess and George. She pulled out her notebook, flipped it open to the clues page, and waited.

While George read the manual, Bess checked out the mechanical side. She was pressing buttons, switching levers, and flipping dials.

“Everything seems to be just fine,” Bess remarked. She was quickly figuring out how the machine worked. After taking some change from her purse, Bess pushed a green button. The register drawer opened, and Bess put the change inside.

The machine beeped and then reported that there was one dollar and sixty-seven cents in the drawer. Bess took three dimes out of the machine and pressed the green button again. The register recounted the money perfectly to one dollar and thirty-seven cents. “It can even count dollar bills!” Bess said with amazement.

“That’s the magic of the computer inside,” George reported, looking up from the instruction booklet. “There’s a magic eye hooked to a scanner. The scanner is programmed to tell dollar bills from fives and tens and twenties. It can even pick out fifties and one-hundred-dollar bills.”

Nancy tapped her pencil on her notebook. The Clue Crew had been checking out the register for ten minutes, and they still didn’t have any clues about how the money had disappeared. Nancy was positive that the register held the solution to the mystery. She had really sharp instincts—that was what made her such a great detective.

“Hey!” Bess suddenly shouted. “I think I found something!” She handed Nancy a small piece of white paper, folded into a little square. “This was in the cash drawer. It was stuck in the bottom of the quarter cup.”

“Weird,” George said, looking over Bess’s shoulder at the white paper. “I guess that because the magic eye only recognizes paper money, it didn’t do anything with this blank paper.”

“It’s not blank,” Nancy reported, opening the small square. She held up the paper to show the girls that thirty-five little pencil lines were drawn neatly onto the paper in groups of five.

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