Jones & Parker Case Files by Focus on the Family

Author:Focus on the Family [Focus on the Family]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories, JUVENILE FICTION / Religious / Christian / Mysteries & Detective Stories
ISBN: 9781684285242
Publisher: Focus on the Family
Published: 2022-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

I put the phone to my ear. “Who is this?” I asked.

“Hello, Emily Jones,” the voice replied.

My blood ran cold. The mysterious stranger was back!

“I’m not talking to you,” I told the voice.

“Oh, that’s too bad,” my nemesis said. “If I don’t get to have fun, then nobody does. Take a closer look at the football float.”

I walked around the flatbed truck. Near one rear tire, I spotted a pressure gauge with a smiley-face sticker attached. That smile always meant trouble.

“What did you do?” I asked.

“Nothing—yet,” the voice replied. “Check for yourself.”

I attached the pressure gauge to the closest tire. Everything looked fine. Then the gauge began to hiss air. I tried to remove it, but the gauge locked itself magnetically.

The voice gasped in fake shock. “Oh no, you’ve ruined the parade. I guess all those big, sweaty football players will have to walk.”

“Here, let me help,” Cooper said. We tugged together, but the gauge wouldn’t budge. The voice laughed at us.

We ran through the parade, looking for help. With so many inventors in town—Eugene, Renee, Mr. Whittaker, the Square One Club—I was surprised that I couldn’t find any of them.

“Are you OK?” a girl asked. I turned and saw Suzu, holding a pressure gauge.

“What are you doing with that?!” Cooper asked.

Suzu shrugged. “Checking the tire pressure on Gargantuan. My robotics club brought three fighting robots to the parade.”

“Don’t talk to her,” the voice ordered. “The only way to release the gauge is to solve my riddle: Wherever the king goes, this spot stays in one place—unless he takes a bath.”

I tried to think. When a king takes a bath, he removes his . . .

“Crown!” I shouted. I turned to Cooper. “Where are the homecoming crowns?”

“At the back of the car line,” Cooper replied. “The king and queen wear them at the end the parade.”

Suzu giggled. “No, no. Look under the Crown.”

“Huh?” I said.

“The Toyota Crown. You know, the car?” Suzu said.

“I’ve never heard of that,” I said.

“Oh,” Suzu replied. “They are very common in Japan, where I’m from.” She walked over to a parked, full-size sedan. “It looks like this,” she said.

The doors were locked, but I spotted a box with a blinking red light on the driver’s seat. Checking “under the Crown,” I also found another smiley-face sticker attached to a lug wrench.

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