The Cinderella Ballet Mystery by Carolyn Keene & Macky Pamintuan

Author:Carolyn Keene & Macky Pamintuan
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781416912569
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2006-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

school notebooks, homework assignments, a half-eaten granola bar, dirty T-shirts, and a dirty towel. What a mess!

“Are you cleaning out your bag?” Nancy asked him curiously.

Gregory shook his head. “Nah. Just looking for something.”

“Oh.”

Nancy turned to go. But just then she noticed something shiny and glittery in the pile of Gregory’s stuff.

It was a rhinestone. A small, clear, heart-shaped rhinestone.

It looked just like the rhinestones from the missing Cinderella slippers!

CHAPTER SIX

A Blazing Headline

Nancy stared at the glittery, heart-shaped rhinestone lying among Gregory’s things. It had to have fallen off one of the Cinderella slippers.

Did this mean that Gregory was the slipper thief?

“That looks like one of the rhinestones from the Cinderella slippers,”

Nancy said, pointing to the jewel.

Gregory stared at the rhinestone. His cheeks flushed red.

“That’s not mine,” he said quickly. “I don’t know how it got there.”

Nancy tried to figure out if Gregory was lying. She couldn’t tell. Still, he seemed to be hiding something.

“You don’t know how it got there?” Nancy asked him.

“No way,” Gregory said.

“It’s definitely not yours?” Nancy persisted.

Gregory shook his head.

Nancy picked up the rhinestone. “Can I have it, then?”

“Sure,” Gregory said with a shrug. “I don’t want it.”

Scruffy nuzzled his nose in Nancy’s hand and sniffed the rhinestone. He began barking loudly.

“What’s the matter, boy?” Nancy asked him.

Scruffy continued to bark at the jewel.

“Scruffy, be quiet!” Gregory said. He picked up one of his dirty socks and threw it across the floor. “Fetch, Scruffy!” he ordered.

Just then Nancy got an idea. While Gregory watched Scruffy fetch his sock, she leaned over and peeked into his dance bag. If Gregory was the slipper thief, the slippers might be in there.

But they weren’t. All she could see was a paperback book, a magazine, and … a magnifying glass.

A magnifying glass? Nancy frowned. What was Gregory doing with that?

Scruffy had finally stopped barking and was chewing vigorously on Gregory’s sock. Nancy turned to Gregory with a smile. “So why are you carrying a magnifying glass in your dance bag?” she asked him.

Gregory started. “Hey, what are you doing looking in my bag?” he demanded.

“It was open, and I just happened to—” Nancy began.

Gregory picked up his belongings and threw them into his bag. “You should stop poking around in other people’s stuff,” he said gruffly.

With that, he grabbed his bag and headed over to the barre.

That night, the Clue Crew met at Nancy’s house to go over their case. Nancy and Bess sat cross-legged on Nancy’s bed while George sat at Nancy’s desk.

“We have two new clues,” Nancy announced.

She held out the heart-shaped rhinestone and the piece of paper that said,

“taille 35.” Bess and George studied them carefully.

“What does ‘taille’ mean?” Bess mused. “Did somebody misspell the word ‘tail,’ as in a doggy tail?”

“Maybe it’s in code,” George suggested.

“I wondered about that too,” Nancy said. “In any case, I think it’s definitely a clue because the letters are just like the fancy letters on the slipper shoe box.”

George typed all this into Nancy’s computer. “I know,” she said suddenly.

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