The Mystery of the Missing Pop Idol by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Author:Gertrude Chandler Warner [Warner, Gertrude Chandler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-5040-0087-1
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 2014-02-03T22:46:00+00:00

Benny knocked on the door to the audition room once again. The door flew open. This time Mr. Mayflower answered.

“What are you children doing here again?” asked Wilfred Mayflower. “I hope you’re here to tell me that silly pop star has been found and that we can get on with the show.”

“We’re sorry, Mr. Mayflower,” said Violet, closing the door once she and her siblings were inside the studio. “We’re still trying to find her.”

“I didn’t expect you to have found her,” Wilfred said.

“But we’re really good at solving mysteries,” Benny said.

“I highly doubt that,” said Wilfred. “Children are horrible at most everything, except for making a lot of racket and making me angry.”

“But you’re always angry,” said Benny.

Wilfred didn’t have a reply for that.

“Like my brother, Benny, said, we’re trying to help,” said Henry. “We need to talk with Lester Freeman. We need to ask him some questions.”

“I’d like to ask Lester some questions too,” Wilfred said, “but I don’t know where he or his camera crew have run off to.”

Wilfred Mayflower stomped off in a huff, leaving the children alone in the studio surrounded by the judges’ table, the many TV screens, and the Pop Star Sensation sign.

“We’ve got to find Mr. Freeman,” Violet said. “We have to ask if he knows anything about Madlynn Rose’s disappearance.”

From behind the table and big sign came a few musical sounds. The Alden children followed them.

The Pop Star Sensation band sat fiddling with their instruments. The bass player tuned the strings of his bass. The drummer impatiently tapped the pedal of his bass drum. The guitarist strummed his bright red guitar, playing the chords for Madlynn Rose’s hit song. Violet couldn’t help but stop and sing along.

“It feels like time to say hello,

But, sorry, now I’ve got to go.

One last thing you’ve got to know,

This won’t be good-bye, oh no.

This won’t be good-bye.

This won’t be good-bye.”

Next to the band sat Esty Gadooj. The lights of her costume weren’t flashing anymore and now she looked bored.

“Miss Gadooj!” said Jessie. “We need your help. Do you know where Mr. Freeman is? We’ve got to ask him about Madlynn Rose.”

“He’s out with the film crew,” Esty Gadooj replied. “They’re in the mall somewhere. I told them it was no use.”

Suddenly there was a clatter and a crash. Benny hadn’t been looking where he was going and had fallen into an open and empty guitar case.

“Oops!” Benny said, climbing out of the case. “I accidentally bumped into that rack of guitars, and I fell. I’m okay though.”

“Let’s make sure all of these guitars are okay,” said Jessie. She walked over to the guitar rack, where several guitars were swinging after being bumped by the youngest Alden.

Jessie looked the guitars over to make sure they hadn’t been chipped or scratched. There were six spaces on the guitar rack, but only four guitars. She couldn’t help but notice that the four were orange, yellow, green, and blue. She turned and saw the band’s guitarist with a red guitar.

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