Authors: Ron Roy
The Canary Caper (6 page)
Dink grinned. “Yeah, and old Fred Little came shooting out the window like a rocket. I bet he burned his hands sliding down that rope.”
Dink rolled over and closed his eyes.
Thirty seconds later, Ruth Rose burst through the tent flap. She shined a flashlight into Dink’s face.
“GUYS, WAKE UP!” she yelled.
Josh bolted straight up. “Geez, Ruth Rose, my heart can’t take any more surprises tonight.”
“What’s wrong?” Dink asked, blinking.
“TIGER CAME HOME!” Ruth Rose
said, flopping down next to Dink’s feet. “She was on my bed when I snuck upstairs. When I went to pick her up, she hopped down and crawled under the bed.”
Ruth Rose grinned. “And guess what I found under there with her?”
“A sword?” Dink guessed.
“Nope!”
“A burglar?” Josh asked, blinking into the flashlight.
“No! I found three kittens. I’M A GRANDMOTHER!”
Text copyright © 1998 by Ron Roy.
Illustrations copyright © 1998 by John Steven Gurney.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roy, Ron, 1940–
The canary caper / by Ron Roy; illustrated by John Steven Gurney.
p. cm. — (A to Z mysteries)
“A stepping stone book.”
SUMMARY: Dink and his friends investigate why pets, like Mrs. Davis’s canary,
Mozart, are mysteriously disappearing all over town.
eISBN: 978-0-307-51642-8
[1. Pets—Fiction. 2. Lost and found possessions—Fiction. 3. Mystery and detective
stories.] I. Gurney, John, ill. II. Title. III. Series: Roy, Ron, 1940– A to Z mysteries.
PZ7.R8139Can 1997 [E]—dc21 97-15564
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