The Pumpkin Thief: a Chloe Boston Mystery
“Again. But so had the chief, I noticed once I glanced back up the hill, so I didn’t feel so bad. Anyway, chasing monsters through a cornfield can really take it out of a girl.I made my way to my jack-o-lantern and sat on a bench that was far from clean, having had hordes of cider-swilling kids dribbling on it for hours. But I was far from clean myself after rolling around the corn field so a little more dirt on my shroud didn’t matter.I was looking sadly at my jack-o-lantern whose candles were ...guttering and wondered if I would have won had the discovery of the body not interrupted proceedings. The air smelled of baking pumpkin and I realized with a pang that I never got my pumpkin cake. Blue looked kind of depressed too. Maybe it was the cold light from the nearly full moon overpowering the sodium vapor streetlamps. I know the lamps are efficient but I’ve never cared for their eerie, dim light. Of course, maybe she was just tired after playing wolf in the cornfield. She hadn’t done that in a couple of years.MoreLess
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