The Case of the Golden Key by James Preller

Author:James Preller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

Floating in the darkness.

Roaaa-roooow, it cried again.

I aimed the flashlight at the floating eyes.

“Ha!” Mila laughed nervously. “Just a cat. I wonder how it got up here?”

“Never mind the cat,” I complained. “Let’s see what’s inside this trunk.”

It didn’t take us long to find the treasure. Because there was no treasure to find. Just old clothes, a tuxedo wrapped in plastic, a goofy-looking top hat, blankets, scarves, and a woolen overcoat. “Let’s drag this back to the hatch,” I said.

We hauled the heavy chest across the floor.

“Jones?” Reginald called up. “What’s that awful noise? Did you find anything?”

I poked my head through the hatch. “Yeah, we found your cat. And we solved the mystery, too. Only it wasn’t worth solving in the first place.”

Reginald climbed to the top of the ladder. He looked through the trunk, sighed, and snapped it shut. “It was nothing after all,” he said. “All that trouble for nothing.”

I was disappointed, too.

But that’s the way it goes with some cases. You win some, you lose some. “Let’s go home,” I said to Mila.

She didn’t answer. I turned to look back.

But Mila was gone.

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