The Great Shelby Holmes by Elizabeth Eulberg

Author:Elizabeth Eulberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781681190525
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

16

There was a loud banging on our front door the following morning. When I looked through the peephole, I was a little surprised to see who was on the other side.

“Hey, Shelby!”

“I thought I would come get you so as not to inconvenience you with waiting for me outside.” While she spoke with her usual attitude, she was scratching the back of her leg with her foot.

No way! Was Shelby nervous? She sure seemed it. I mean, she was being nice to me, so she had to be uncomfortable. I didn’t want her to feel more self-conscious, so I didn’t comment on her odd (yet totally welcomed) behavior. She wanted me to come along. This time.

“We’re going to leave for the Lacys’ now?” I asked.

“We require a quick detour first. I need to converse with a contact.”

It was the first time she used we. Maybe my security footage idea yesterday made her finally realize how helpful I could be.

“Yeah, let me change.” I ran into my room and put on my favorite outfit for playing basketball, just in case Zane wanted to play a game later.

As I walked back into the living room, Shelby gave me a quick once-over. “Don’t you look rather sporting.”

“Thanks!” I said as I looked down at my mesh shorts and army tee.

“And you think I’m the one with the crush on Zane,” she said with a snort.

We started walking uptown several blocks in silence. She turned us west, farther away from the busy avenues.

“So do you think Zareen or the trainer did it? The dog show’s tomorrow,” I reminded her, not like she needed it.

“I have my theories,” she replied with a curl of the lips.

“Would you care to share them?”

“Not at the moment. I still need to work a few things out. I’m hoping that once I study the surveillance footage things will start to clear up.”

“But security already looked at it.”

“True, but I haven’t been able to observe it. I need to figure out how Daisy got away. Security only said they didn’t see Daisy in the footage. I’m looking for something else.”

“What?”

“That has yet to be determined.”

Even though she wanted me here, she wasn’t being very open about what she knew or what she was planning. However, after watching Shelby force her mom to sign that paper last night to get Sir Arthur in the dog show, I knew she had something up her sleeve.

“What aren’t you telling me?”

“About what?”

“About the dog show tomorrow.” I decided to give her a taste of her own medicine. “I noticed when you gave your mom the registration form, you didn’t simply hand it to her. You slid it with your hand covering the top part.” I searched my brain for what that could’ve meant. She didn’t want her mom to see the top … where you usually have to fill out your personal information. “So I’m guessing either you put a different name on the form or a fake address.”

Shelby stopped in her tracks. “Well

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