Zoo Clue by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene [Keene, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Readers, Chapter Books, Girls & Women, General
ISBN: 9781442483507
Google: QUZRPfescJkC
Amazon: 0689877552
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-11-27T13:37:25.553000+00:00

5

Questions Without

Answers

Nancy blinked, startled, as Emily stomped away to the other end of the exhibit. What was that all about? she wondered.

She remembered Emily’s similar outburst on the bus earlier. Emily had been acting weird all day. Could she know something about the vandalism, or was it just a coincidence?

Nancy knew there was just one way to find out—she had to investigate. Leaving the other girls behind, she hurried to catch up to Emily.

“Hey,” she said to Emily, who was staring into the tiger area. “What’s the matter? Are you okay?”

Emily shrugged. “I’m fine,” she said, not looking at Nancy. “Whatever.”

“Are you sure?” Nancy asked. “You seemed a little upset about the contest.”

“I’m not upset,” Emily said. “Look, my group is leaving. I have to go.”

She hurried away. A few seconds later her group wandered off to the next exhibit.

Nancy rejoined her friends. “Did you find out anything from Emily?” Bess asked.

“No,” Nancy said. “It didn’t seem like she wanted to talk to me.”

“That’s suspicious,” George declared. “Better write her down as a suspect.”

Bess shook her head. “But that doesn’t make sense,” she said. “Her group would know if she’d left for long enough to do the damage.”

Nancy gasped. She’d just remembered something. “Hey!” she blurted out. “She did leave—her group mentioned it earlier, when we were all gathered around the crime scene. They said she went to the bathroom without them.”

Mari’s eyes were wide. “Wow,” she said. “Do you really think she did it? She seems so nice!”

“I don’t know,” Nancy said. “But I’m going to write her down as a suspect.”

She quickly added Emily’s name to the list in her notebook. Then she stared at the page.

“What’s wrong?” George asked. “You look worried.”

“I am,” Nancy admitted. “We have a few suspects now, but we don’t have enough clues. Just that one handprint in the dirt.”

Bess nodded. “Maybe we should go back and-”

A loud whoop of laughter interrupted her. “What was that?” asked Nancy.

“Sounds like those stupid boys,” Brenda commented sourly.

Nancy walked out to the path. Just across the way was the bear enclosure, which was a big island surrounded by a moat and a low wall. Jason, Mike, and Peter were over there watching some young bears wrestle in the grass on the island. Orson Wong and Stevie Sikes were there too.

“Oh, no,” George groaned. “Those boys are probably going to come over here next and get in our way!”

“Maybe not,” Nancy said thoughtfully. “They’re on our suspect list too, remember? I should talk to them.”

She led the way over to the bear exhibit. Brenda spotted the active bears and rushed over to the wall to take pictures. Bess and George hung back and watched as Nancy walked up to Jason, who was hanging over the fence watching the wrestling bears.

“Hi,” Nancy said, tapping him on the arm. “Can I ask you a few questions?”

“I don’t know, can you?” Jason responded with a grin.

Nancy rolled her eyes. “Okay,” she said. “I was just wondering where you were around the time of the vandalism.

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