The Mystery of the Monster Movie by David A. Adler

Author:David A. Adler
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.

Cam said, “Click,” again.

“Now what are you looking at?” Eric asked.

“I’m looking at all the other people I saw in the lobby. Maybe I saw someone else who had the film hidden.”

“Well,” the theater manager said to Mr. Bender. “Are you going to give me that film or not?”

“I don’t have that film,” Mr. Bender said. “I didn’t take it.”

“Then I’m calling the police. You just make sure that you don’t leave the theater before they get here.”

Chapter Five

The theater manager walked into his office. Mr. Bender looked at a few of the movie posters in the lobby. Then he went into the men’s room.

“I’ll bet that’s where he hid the film,” Eric said. “I’ll bet it’s at the bottom of the wastebasket under the paper towels. As soon as he leaves, I’ll go in and find it.”

Cam’s eyes were still closed. “I looked at the pictures I have in my head of the people I saw in the lobby. I didn’t see anyone holding a reel of film.” Cam opened her eyes. “But I did see something strange. And I remembered something.”

“What was it? What did you remember?” Cam’s mother asked.

“The man in the projection room said, ‘I was here just about the whole time.’ That means that he wasn’t there the whole time. He must have left the projection room. Now what would get him to leave his job?”

“Maybe he had to go to the men’s room,” Eric said. “Maybe Mr. Bender was waiting for him there.”

“Or maybe,” Cam said, “there was a telephone call for him.”

“Yes,” Cam’s mother said. “A telephone call would get him away from his job.”

Cam started to climb the narrow steps to the projection room. “Come on,” she told her mother and Eric. “Let’s find out.”

Cam’s mother and Eric followed Cam. They knocked on the door of the projection room.

“It’s not locked. Come on in,” a man’s voice called from inside.

Cam pushed the door open. A man was sitting on a metal folding chair behind a large movie projector. All around the man’s chair were coffee cups and old newspapers.

“Can I help you?” the man asked. Then he saw Cam’s mother looking at the mess on the floor. “I was just about to clean up,” he said.

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