The Pet and the Pendulum by Gordon McAlpine

Author:Gordon McAlpine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2015-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

O’ER HILL AND DALE

A soft snow was falling as the long black limousine pulled up to the Poe family’s house.

Edgar and Allan had been watching for the car.

Now they turned from the living room window and called, “It’s here!”

Wiping cookie crumbs from his hands, Uncle Jack came out of the kitchen in his blue suit and best silk tie; meantime, Aunt Judith preened with last-minute intensity in front of the hall mirror. She was dressed in her Sunday best, including the pearls that had come to her through many generations of Poes.

“Let’s get a move on,” Uncle Jack called to her.

“Just a minute, dear,” she answered, making minute adjustments to her already perfect hairstyle. “One doesn’t get invited just any old evening to dinner at a hundred-acre private estate in Green Spring Valley. Getting one’s appearance right is important.”

Roderick stretched, as if to show off his new Italian leather collar.

The twins wore suits but no ties. They wanted to maintain the rough-and-ready appearance of private detectives rather than the appearance of junior business executives.

After all, they were detectives.

Edgar carried a digital recorder to get Miss Reynolds’s words down for posterity—the solution to a 165-year-old murder mystery that would set free the ghost of their great-great-great-great granduncle.

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