The Calder Game by Blue Balliett

Author:Blue Balliett
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-545-27913-0
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

After lunch, they walked toward the Queen Pool, as that part of the lake was called. If they crossed the Vanbrugh Bridge, the old one with arches, they should be able to find the well.

Heading off into a clump of trees, relieved to be leaving the police and the nude bodies behind, they talked as if their talking was nothing astounding. So much had shifted since breakfast.

“Maybe Calder went through the maze, and then …” Tommy’s voice trailed off. “Strange that no one remembers seeing him in the park with another person.”

“I know, my mind just keeps hitting dead ends, too.” Petra sighed. “It’s hard not to imagine bad things.”

“But doesn’t this place seem pretty safe to you? I mean, all the English stuff seems so — polite. Like everyone has good manners.”

Petra laughed, remembering the bottoms. “I think people here just sound polite because we’re not used to their accents and some of their vocabulary. But I know what you mean, and I guess it is safer, statistically, than Chicago.”

Just as she spoke, a man’s deep voice boomed nearby, and another shouted back. They heard the sounds of running feet and a boat engine. They broke into a trot, reached the top of a hill, and slithered down the bank to the crowd of police officers gathered near a small, blue police boat.

From where they stood on a pile of rocks, both could see: Curled in the stern of the boat, wrapped in red blankets, was a body.

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