by Marilyn Dailey

Created on: April 18, 2008   Last Updated: June 11, 2008

Inspector Skeleton
SECTION 1 - Identify suspects
maid - innocent or guilty
repairman - innocent or guilty
hacker - innocent or guilty
baker - innocent or guilty
SECTION 11 - Mystery body
People are disappearing/dying
SECTION 111 Clues:
A piece of cloth was left
No mirrors were present
The victims were women
Not home any nights
On a cool, quiet Halloween Eve, there was a rash of disappearances called in to the Hellinggrath Police Department. Samantha and Maggie Truman were sixth graders who had their minds on bright futures. Maggie wanted to be an Advisor to the President of the United States. Samantha, who is sometimes called Sam, wanted to be the Worlds Greatest Detective. They were in bed to listening to the television reporter. Maggie slid out of her bunk bed and into her White House-shaped slippers. She walked to the restroom as Sam pulled a piece of paper from her Ipod-shaped dresser beside her bed. When Maggie got back into bed, she turned over on her side and looked over at Sam.

"What are you doing, Sam?" asked Maggie.
"I believe that I can solve this mystery for the police and the FBI of which I plan to be one of," replied Samantha.
"So far I have the maid, the TV repairman, the baker, and that computer hacker as suspects," said Sam.
Every time the TV announcer was on, Sam tried to be near the television with her trusty pad. When it got late, Sam had to turn off the TV but, she would turn the radio on really low. She had to keep up with those reports.
"Sam, you are going to loose a lot of sleep doing this," Maggie reminded her.
"I won't sweat it tomorrow, Maggie," answered Sam.
A few minutes later, Sam sat up and grabbed her pad again. She started to scribble down what she thought were clues. She finally slid back down in her bed and went to sleep with her night-light on.
The next day, Samantha and Maggie got dressed and rushed out to meet the school bus. But not before Sam could get her trusty pad. She didn't even notice the bus driver was dressed as a skeleton to blend in for Halloween.
"Alright, let's do this!" said Sam.
"Now I have four suspects," she said as she began to eliminate them one by one using her clues.
"Maggie, I've got it!" said Sam hoping up and down on her seat on the bus.
"Look at the clues I scribbled down last night from the radio."
Her notes said: a piece of cloth was left at the scene of the crime, there were no mirrors found around the bodies, all of the victims were women, and this person had a lot of free time on their hand. They were never

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