MenoPaws Mysteries Box Set Books 1-3 by Morgana Best

Author:Morgana Best [Best, Morgana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Best Cosy Books

Chapter Eleven

The Open sign was on the bookshop door, but Daphne, Delilah, Edison, and I were setting up camp on my living room floor.

We had decided it wasn’t safe to be separated, given that one of us was surely next on the list.

JenniFur walked over to me. “I overheard Edison telling Daphne and Delilah that they can all guard the secret door from here,” JenniFur told me. “Then they saw me in the room and stopped talking.”

I wish I knew what was behind the secret door. Even JenniFur didn’t know. The trouble was, although I had seen the secret door once or twice, the other times it appeared as a solid wall.

I wondered if I should broach the subject of that secret door again but decided it would be better simply to watch and wait. Still, I was somewhat irritated. If there was any way whatever was behind that secret door could possibly be connected with the murders, then I certainly had a right to know.

“What did JenniFur say to you then?” Daphne asked me.

“JenniFur didn’t say anything,” I lied.

“You nodded.”

“Did I? I must’ve thought of something. I can’t remember what it was now, though.” I walked over to rearrange my camp bed. Even though I lived upstairs, we had decided we shouldn’t be out of each other’s sight until the murders were solved.

“The locksmith has put extra locks on all the doors and windows,” I told Daphne.

I looked at Delilah, who was now wearing a pink and green striped helmet that was bigger than a motorbike helmet. When she saw me looking, she said, “This is a special device to help protect me from aliens who are trying to snatch my thoughts, but it will also help if somebody tries to drop something on my head. Don’t forget, the murderer is trying to make everything look like an accident.”

“Then the murderer is an idiot,” I said.

Delilah appeared surprised, as far as I could judge from the little I could see of her face. “Why do you say that?”

“Because one would look like an accident. If Anthony had fallen off a cliff and nobody else had died, people would have thought it strange, but nobody would have thought it was murder. And people are bitten by snakes all the time and die–nobody gives it a second thought. But you put those two deaths together in that short space of time, and it starts to look highly suspicious.”

Edison joined the conversation. “And then there’s Georgia’s death. Somebody lured her to the archery range. There’s that text, hard physical evidence. By now, everyone’s realised there is a murderer on the loose.”

I agreed. “And then add Edmund drowning at the waterfall, and somebody slipping Death Cap mushrooms into Audrey’s food. That makes it clear they weren’t accidents. Why would the murderer do that?”

“Or murderers, plural,” Daphne said angrily. “It’s clear to me it’s the Night Court trying to make us all look like fools.” When she said that, they all looked in the direction of the secret door.

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