Smile and Say Murder by Carolyn Keene

Author:Carolyn Keene [Keene, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781481414487
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2014-01-21T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Ten

GET YOUR HANDS in the air.” Officer bellows ordered Nancy. “And don’t touch that body,” she said, indicating Mick, who was immobile on the floor.

Slowly Nancy raised her hands and stepped back from Mick and the gun. She felt helpless and terrified and confused. It had all been an accident, but would that matter to a court of law? She’d been caught red-handed in what looked like murder!

Nancy heard the pounding of feet in the hallway. Officer O’Hara burst into Mick’s office, gun in hand. To make things worse, most of the Flash staff arrived, too. Ned was there, standing protectively close to Sondra. Suddenly Nancy caught her breath. Brenda Carlton had appeared and was looking at her with a disturbingly triumphant smile on her face. Oh no, Nancy thought, can anything else possibly go wrong?

“Well,” Brenda said smugly, “if this isn’t the scoop of the year! I can just see the headlines. ‘Amateur Detective Nancy Drew Murders Top Exec.’ ”

Nancy felt sick. Brenda had just blown her cover in front of the entire Flash staff!

“She’s a detective?” Sondra cried. “Then Yvonne did hire you to spy on my brother—and now you’ve killed him!” Sondra burst into tears, crying as if she’d never be able to stop.

To Nancy’s amazement, Ned put his arm around her, trying to comfort her. The rat! Nancy thought furiously.

“Sondra, it’s not like that,” Ned said. “Nancy’s a good person! This is all a mistake!” But his arm stayed around her shoulders. Nancy felt betrayed and wounded. There she was, being arrested for murder, and her boyfriend was worried about another woman!

Ned’s words didn’t make any difference to Sondra, who kept crying, or to the rest of the staff, either. They stared at Nancy in stunned and disgusted silence. She felt like a traitor. Brenda’s beady eyes glittered happily. She was thoroughly enjoying Nancy’s misfortune.

“Okay, Drew,” Officer Bellows ordered, “O’Hara’s got you covered. Don’t try anything funny.” Bellows whipped out her handcuffs and snapped them neatly onto Nancy’s wrists. Nancy forced back tears. No way was she going to cry in front of all those people.

Suddenly Nancy found her voice. “You’ve got it all wrong,” she cried, struggling against the handcuffs. “Mick was the one who tried to kill Yvonne! When I walked into this office, he was pulling that silver revolver out of his bottom desk drawer!”

“Liar!” Sondra exclaimed, still sobbing.

“I swear it’s true! We were struggling for the gun when it went off! It wasn’t my fault!” Nancy could feel the tears building up uncontrollably within her.

“Mick’s no murderer!” Sondra screamed.

“I saw the proof with my own eyes,” Nancy replied vehemently.

“Hey, could you hold it down?” came a voice from the floor. “I’ve got a horrible headache.”

“Mick!” cried Sondra. “You’re alive!” She burst into a fresh storm of tears. “Thank heavens!”

Nancy breathed a giant sigh of relief.

“My head’s killing me,” Mick said. “I think I must have hit it on the edge of the desk when I fell.”

“All right, Swanson,” Officer Bellows said to Mick. “Off the floor.

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