Case Closed #1 by Lauren Magaziner

Author:Lauren Magaziner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

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TO TAKE THE LEFT PATH, CLICK HERE.

TO TAKE THE RIGHT PATH, CLICK HERE.

TO GET A HINT FROM ELIZA, CLICK HERE.

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THE SUN’S STARTING to set, and I know we should probably go home for the night, but I really want to spy on Smythe more, and I need my shoes. A few more minutes won’t hurt, right?

“Come on,” I hiss. “Let’s go around back.”

Eliza, Frank, and I crawl around the house and try all the doors. There’s the big wooden one with a rainbow unicorn carved into it. Then there’s a screen door. Beneath some bushes, there’s a cellar door. Last we try a sliding door.

Unfortunately, they’re all locked.

Maybe we can get in through a window. The first-floor windows are too high for any of us to reach on our own.

“Frank,” I whisper. “I’m going to give you a boost. You have to open the window and pull yourself in. Then you can open a back door for us.”

“Okay!” Frank says.

I grab him around the waist and pick him up. He squirms like a wormy fidget bug, and he’s slipping from my grip—

“Look out!” Eliza cries.

Frank tumbles on top of me.

“Are you hurt?” Eliza whispers, checking her brother for scrapes.

“I’m SUPER FRANK!” he says, jumping to his feet. I lift him again, and he’s still as wiggly as a twisty straw, but he eventually grabs the windowsill.

“Now you have to push up on my butt! Butt.” He snickers.

I push up on his butt . . . then his legs . . . then his shoes until he’s half inside.

“EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKK!!!!!” comes a shriek from inside. “BURGLARS!!!! MURDERERS!!!!! SNEAKS IN THE NIGHT!!!!!!!! CALL THE POLICE, SMYTHE!!!”

Then comes an enormous thump.

Which—as we find out later when the ambulance arrives—is the sound of Guinevere LeCavalier having a heart attack and dropping dead on the dining-room floor.

CASE CLOSED.

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