The Ghost Ship Mystery (2012)
““If you ask me,” one guest said, “the police should question Miss Coffin first. After all, she lives at the Sailors’ Museum.”
“Humph!” another guest said. “What about investigating the biggest scrimshaw dealer in these parts, Spooner Cooke? He’s another strange one, always in that rowboat of his at odd hours.”
This last comment about Spooner Cooke upset Violet. She put down her soup spoon and spoke up. “Mr. Cooke only rows his boat at different times because of the tides and weather. We visited him just a little while ago. He was as nice as could be.”
“Nice to children?” one person asked with raised eyebrows. “As long as we’ve been coming to Ragged Cove he hasn’t let a child so much as look in the window of his shop.”
Benny reached into his pocket, pulled out his scrimshaw top, and whirled it next to his clam chowder bowl. “Well, today he gave me this as a present. And he gave Violet a whole bunch of needles. All kinds.”
Mrs. Pease came around with the soup pot.
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