Museum Mayhem by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Aladdin

A thin man with a mask over his face ran a roller up the wall. “Yeah! No one’s allowed in here!” he shouted through his mask.

Nancy stepped forward. Bess and George were at her sides. All around them were different sculptures covered in clear plastic sheets. “We have to ask you a few questions,” she said.

“Questions about what?” The man pulled his mask off.

“That sculpture that broke down the hall,” Bess said. She opened her sketch pad, ready to write down what the men had to say. “Did you hear anything around six fifteen? Any sounds next door?”

The round man scratched his nose, getting even more blue paint on his face. “We were painting, and there was this loud thud. I could hear it on the other side of the wall, but I didn’t know what it was.”

The man with the mask nodded. “It was strange. We were going to call the guard, but then we saw her run past.” He pointed out the arched doorway.

Nancy looked through the clear sheet that covered the entrance. She could see a few shapes beyond it. Rita must have passed them as she went through the sculpture hall—but did the suspect pass them as well? “So, Rita ran that way, toward the sculpture hall. Did you see anyone else run past?”

“No,” the man with the mask said. “We were here all day. Don’t know much more than that.”

Bess scribbled some notes down. “Did you see anything else unusual tonight?”

As the men thought about it, Nancy looked around the room, searching for anything that seemed strange. There were sheets on the floor, some rollers, and paint. If the men were here all day, the suspect probably didn’t come through.

The man with the mask started painting again, turning the wall blue. “I don’t think so.”

“No, there was!” the round man said. “Don’t you remember those two girls?”

Bess leaned over to Nancy. “Two girls?” she whispered. “Do you think it could be Melody and Lena?”

“What did they look like?” Nancy asked.

The man with the mask pointed to the sculpture hall. “They were wearing matching uniforms. One had a long brown braid. We found them climbing on the scaffolding right by where that sculpture was.”

The round man laughed, smacking a blue handprint onto his leg. “That’s right. I would bet you a hundred bucks those girls had something to do with it. We went in, and yelled at them. We told them to get down, but they wouldn’t listen.”

George nudged Nancy in the side. “They said they’d just gone in and out. They said they’d made a wrong turn.”

Nancy knew they were onto something. “How long were they there?” she asked the men.

“Fifteen minutes, maybe twenty,” the man with the mask said. “They were hiding up there. We came back in here to finish, and then we were going to get the guard to get them down.”

“But then we heard that thud,” the round man added.

Nancy perked up. “So, you’re saying you heard the thud right around the time you saw the girls on the scaffolding?”

“Yup,” the man said.

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