The Case of the Weeping Mermaid by Holly Webb

Author:Holly Webb [Holly Webb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847156297
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Published: 2015-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

“Oh, Eddie, no!” Maisie wailed, snatching it from him. Pages sagged out of the book, and the front cover fell off. “Oh no, oh no,” she murmured, scrabbling for the pages, and Eddie peered up at her in surprise. Then his ears drooped guiltily. He didn’t understand what he had done wrong, but he could tell that Maisie wasn’t happy.

“Maybe it tasted salty, because of the sea,” Maisie sighed. “Oh, Eddie. All my father’s notes! And he asked me to look after them.” Her voice wobbled.

Snowflake padded on to Alice’s lap and flicked her whiskers smugly at Eddie. But he didn’t even growl. He crawled off the bed and went to hide himself underneath it.

“Maisie, what’s that?” Alice asked suddenly, picking up the back cover of the notebook as it slithered away from the binding completely and flumped on to the bed. “Look, that’s not how it’s supposed to be, is it?”

“There’s something in there,” Maisie murmured, sitting up a little straighter and taking the limp, chewed thing from Alice. The cover wasn’t just one piece of card, as she’d thought. It had been folded over, to make a sort of pocket. And inside the pocket were a handful of small pieces of paper that cascaded out as she tipped it up. They were covered in tiny handwriting. Her father’s handwriting.

“Secret notes…” Maisie whispered. She fanned them out across the bed, frowning down at them. “My father didn’t want anybody to see these – not even me.”

“Maybe we shouldn’t read them…” Alice suggested doubtfully, but Maisie shook her head.

“We have to. What if there’s something important? Something that might let us help your father?” She didn’t tell Alice what she had seen as the papers scattered down on to the patchwork quilt. The name Lacey, underlined as though it was significant with a great dark scratch of pencil.

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