In summer, a man was walking lost in the desert. He had neither food nor water. When his body was found one day later by police, the ground was dry. They were baffled, because he had been drowned! How could this be? SolutionIn the desert, a flash flood can come at any time, and by […]
Colin Webster, the town of Loudan’s only 10- year-old genius and detective, was rushing to the lighthouse on the rocky shore along with every other kid in town. Zach Eddy had put signs up two weeks ago for a special gold-seeking diving rod. The reason Colin was so interested was that Zach was always trying
“I could have been killed, Inspector Wright!” cried Sam Dancer as the brilliant detective stepped in his disco.“Tell me what happened,” Inspector Wright asked.“I was closing my disco and then this guy came with a gun. He took all my money and took a shot at me. Luckily, it only scraped past my arm,” Sam
“Kaitlyn!” I shrieked when I saw my best friend run through the door, “You’re back!”Kaitlyn had been vacationing at Myrtle Beach for a week and we couldn’t wait to see each other. She glanced at my ears. “Where are your ear-rings?”She was referring to a pair of ear-rings she had bought me for my birthday
Elliot the detective heard the news of a double murder that occurred on a train.“The driver and the conductor were on the opposite ends of the train, but both were shot at the same time”, reported a policeman who was at the center of the train at the time. The policeman had heard both gunshots
Carrie, Olivia, Johnathan, Micheal and Joel all went on a school camping trip. Due to rain, they couldn’t sleep in tents, so they were led up to the camp dorms. When they were shown to their rooms, which were directly across from each other, they were told that it was thirty minutes since lights were
Polly Perkins was after a talking parrot, so she went to the local pet shop in the hope of securing such a parrot. She had good luck. The shop assistant assured her that the parrot would learn and repeat any word or phrase it heard. Polly was delighted. However, a week later, the parrot still
Detective Sing sat across the table from his friend, John.John had just come back from seeing a sleep therapist. He claimed that he would be able to cure John’s insomnia forever, if John agreed to spend a week at his “Sleep Camp”. The catch was that the treatment cost for a week was “$5,000”.“But it’ll
“Hurry up, Alexa!” I shouted as I struggled with the door knob, which proved difficult to turn in my heavy gloves, “We are going to be late!”My sister, Alexa, appeared from around the corner and helped me with the door knob before putting on her own bulky gloves.We were going to meet a few other
When the police arrived, a man was lying dead under a car. Investigations revealed that although he was not the owner yet he was the last person to drive it. The car had last been driven that morning, but the man’s time of death was established at about3 p.m. The owner of the car was
Detective Tissue was surveying the scene. A woman, who by many was thought to be eccentric, lay dead in the cave. She kept an animal as a “watchdog”. Only this animal was, in fact, a duck. She was out to be killed by an unknown man, so she hid in the cave. Not even she
Terence was a very clever detective, and had solved crimes that many private eyes more experienced than him had been stumped with. His latest task had been with a young man named James Apollo.His neighbour had been burgled last month. James, being a very paranoid man, immediately set to work with covering his floor with
“Check it out,” John said to his friend, Detective Sing, over dinner one night. “For a mere $5,000 I could purchase one of the rarest annuals around, Bulbous Aromaticus.“I was talking to a horticulturist, and she said she was willing to sell me one of the plants and then, each year when it flowered, she
The Seekers of Knowledge found themselves on another quest. This time they had to enter the great wizard tower of Vanya. She was to be caught and brought back to the city of Raptin for justice to be served.Within the tower, the group had encountered many deadly traps and a few roaming monsters. These monsters
One Saturday morning, Veya saw the three musketeers in the mall. Three friends—Pep, Asia and Fe-Fe—call themselves by that name because they are always together.“I’ve been shopping for sandals,” Pep told Veya. “But I have such a wide foot; nothing seems to fit. We’ve been looking everywhere.”“And it’s been slow-going,” Fe-Fe added, “because of Asia’s