The Chocolate Puppy Puzzle
“Is he dead?”
“He’s still missing, Nettie. He wasn’t in the SUV.”
I jumped into the conversation. “Where was the SUV?”
“In a creek bed off the road to the winery.”
“Then it wasn’t in our neighborhood.”
The chief screwed his face up. “Depends on how you look at it. Where’s that map I sent out?”
Aunt Nettie and I led the chief up to the spare bedroom, where the map was laid out on the bed. We all gathered around it, and the chief pointed with a ballpoint pen. “Here’s the Grundy cottage. Here’s Sil...as Snow’s fruit stand.” The pen swooped. “Here’s the Interstate.” The pen moved east of the Interstate, then tapped. “And here’s where the SUV was found.”
“Gee,” I said. “When you look at from a bird’s angle, the winery road is real close. But if we want to buy a bottle of Lake Michigan Red, we have to go way around because we can’t cross the Interstate.”
“That’s true if you drive. But Jerry Cherry tells me that when he was a kid he used to cross the Interstate through culverts and under bridges.”MoreLess
“He’s still missing, Nettie. He wasn’t in the SUV.”
I jumped into the conversation. “Where was the SUV?”
“In a creek bed off the road to the winery.”
“Then it wasn’t in our neighborhood.”
The chief screwed his face up. “Depends on how you look at it. Where’s that map I sent out?”
Aunt Nettie and I led the chief up to the spare bedroom, where the map was laid out on the bed. We all gathered around it, and the chief pointed with a ballpoint pen. “Here’s the Grundy cottage. Here’s Sil...as Snow’s fruit stand.” The pen swooped. “Here’s the Interstate.” The pen moved east of the Interstate, then tapped. “And here’s where the SUV was found.”
“Gee,” I said. “When you look at from a bird’s angle, the winery road is real close. But if we want to buy a bottle of Lake Michigan Red, we have to go way around because we can’t cross the Interstate.”
“That’s true if you drive. But Jerry Cherry tells me that when he was a kid he used to cross the Interstate through culverts and under bridges.”MoreLess
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