A to Z Mysteries: The Empty Envelope by Ron Roy

Author:Ron Roy [Roy, Ron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-52288-7
Publisher: A Stepping Stone Book™ Random House
Published: 1998-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

“F-f-fifty thou…holy moly!” Josh squeaked.

The kids stared at the small blue stamp. After a minute, Dink slipped it back inside the envelope and put it in his pocket.

“No wonder Doris Duncan came all the way to Connecticut!” Ruth Rose said.

Dink nodded. “Yeah. She was after the stamp the whole time. I knew that story about her mother smelled fishy.”

Josh closed the stamp book. “Well, we still have to give the stamp to her.”

Dink and Ruth Rose looked at each other.

“Don’t we?” Josh asked.

“I guess…” Dink said.

“What do you mean, ’I guess’?” Josh said. “It’s hers, Dink. It was on her letter, no matter who sent it to her.”

“But why was it hidden?” Dink asked. “Why the whole story about Doris’s mother? Why the fake letters? Unless…”

“Unless what?” Josh asked.

Dink looked at Josh and Ruth Rose. “Unless the stamp is stolen…”

“Yes!” Ruth Rose said. “It’s worth so much money! Maybe O. Bird stole it. Then he—or she—had to find a way to get it to Doris, so they thought up the letters from ‘Mother.’”

Josh just looked at them. “You guys are crazy,” he finally said. “Besides, there’s no way to be sure.”

Ruth Rose jumped up. “O. Bird sent the letters from New York, right? Maybe that’s where the stamp was stolen!”

Ruth Rose hurried over to Mrs. Mackleroy’s desk, spoke to her quickly, then came back.

“What’s going on?” Dink asked.

“Mrs. Mackleroy is getting us the last few weeks’ New York Times,” Ruth Rose said. “We can check to see if there’s anything about a missing stamp.”

Dink looked at the clock. “Five-fifteen. Doris Duncan will be at my house in forty-five minutes!”

Mrs. Mackleroy walked over and dumped a pile of New York Timeses on their table. “Here you are, kids. Good luck!”

Josh stared at the mountain of papers. “Geez, it’ll take us all night to read these!”

“We don’t have all night,” Dink said, reaching for the pile. “Start reading!”

The kids each took a stack. They set aside the sections they didn’t want, like sports, real estate, and entertainment.

For almost half an hour they turned pages.

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