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    Jay-Pea-Eyes aka Junior Private Investigators: Whodunit mystery detective series, #1
    Jay-Pea-Eyes aka Junior Private Investigators: Whodunit mystery detective series, #1
    Jay-Pea-Eyes aka Junior Private Investigators: Whodunit mystery detective series, #1
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    Jay-Pea-Eyes aka Junior Private Investigators: Whodunit mystery detective series, #1

    By John Priest

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    The Boomerang Mystery

    A strange 'whodunit' mystery for the Jay-Pea-Eyes to have as their first case! Three children go missing and police have organised a massive search of the town of Dudleigh and surrounding areas. A phone call from a security officer at Russington Hospital immediately has several Detectives heading for the Accident & Emergency Department. 
    All three missing children have somehow been returned to the Hospital. No-one sees or hears anything - it's as though the children appeared out of the sky.  
    The Doctor is puzzled - the children are in excellent health but are refusing to talk to anyone, not even their own parents. 
    Local Detectives are baffled. Where have they been? What have they been doing? Why won't they talk? All questions the police want answered. And urgently. 
    When another young girl goes missing, her 10 year old brother Harry and his three friends, Stan and identical twins Polly and Lily, are determined to find her and solve the mystery once and for all. 
    Will they solve the mystery before the Police? Can they find out the 'Where's and the What's' and also the 'Why's and the How's?' 
    Book 1 in the mystery detective whodunit series following the Junior Private Investigators in their crime-busting investigations! 
    A starter chapter book for good readers aged 7 years upwards.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherjohnapriest
    Release dateNov 26, 2011
    ISBN9781519900166
    Jay-Pea-Eyes aka Junior Private Investigators: Whodunit mystery detective series, #1

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      The Boomerang Mystery

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      Zak Cornettonie paced up and down the path leading to a port-a-cabin that had been his office for the past three years. Zak was in his mid-fifties and wore a shiny grey suit that must have been made out of some sort of ‘miracle-grow’ stretchy material otherwise it would never have buttoned across his large stomach.

      Where is he? he yelled impatiently at two of his sons, Where’s that other useless brother of yours?

      They knew better than to make any reply. Standing a safe distance away from him, they let him rant away.

      And your poor old Ma, he rubbed his forehead with his right hand and then swept it over his balding head, replacing the few strands of hair he’d got left back into place, your Ma said all three of you were like me. Well you aint!

      The shortest of the two brothers couldn’t resist, But we are like you, we’re short dumpy and ain’t got no hair. he looked at his brother who was shaking his head vigorously.

      Zak’s face had taken on a deep purple colour and he looked like he was about to explode. He took out a yellow silk handkerchief from his jacket breast pocket and wiped his brow, then waved it in front of Jake’s face, the son that had been foolish enough to answer back. See Jake, that’s just what I meant, you’re all stupid. If brains were dynamite and they blew up, there wouldn’t be enough inside that skull of yours to even ruffle your hair!

      Jake turned to his brother and whispered, What’s he on about Larry? We ain’t got no hair to ruffle.

      Larry looked at his brother. If I were you, I’d keep it zipped. Dad ain’t in no mood for jokin’ today, comprendi? Let’s just pray that Vince gets here pretty sharpish.

      The ear-piercing squeal of steel scraping steel made all three heads turn towards the yard entrance.  A pair of 3 metre high, steel mesh gates burst open as the ice cream van hurtled through. It weaved in and out of the lined-up ice cream vans sitting tidily in parking bays.  A large hand-painted sign saying, ‘The Cornettonies Ice Cream Depot’ that had been welded into position neatly on top of the gates only a few days earlier, broke away, flying across the yard and landing on Zak’s new silver Mercedes convertible. 

      Seeing his lovely Mercedes with its bonnet lid now lying on the floor, the car alarm screeching and the navy blue soft top ripped and in tatters, was a difficult pill for Zak to swallow. He was concentrating on his Mercedes so much he hadn’t seen the large plastic ice cream cone (normally fixed above the front windscreen of the ice cream van), now somersaulting several times through the air, picking up speed just before it hit him right between the legs. Zak’s screams were drowned by the sound of Vince’s ice cream van skidding broadside into the solid brick wall at the rear of the yard ...

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      From the kitchen, Chloe Flowers overheard enough of her husband’s conversation to realise it was bad news. She heard him slam the phone down and start muttering.

      What is it Tom? she asked, at the same time handing her twin daughters a spoon and a bowl each. Put your own cornflakes in while I see what’s up with your Dad. And don’t make a mess with the milk.

      I can’t believe you’ve said that to us. Lily answered. We’re nearly 10 years of age you know Mum, only one day to go before our birthday.  Turning to her twin sister they rolled their eyes and shook their heads in unison behind their mother’s back.

      Don’t be flippant and don’t shake your heads either just because I’ve asked you to do something.  Chloe said as she walked towards the lounge.

      I’m sure she’s either psychic or she was definitely born with eyes in the back of her head. Polly whispered, grabbing the box of cornflakes and pouring some first into Lily’s bowl and then into her own. With a sideways glance to the kitchen door to make sure her mother had left the room, Polly grabbed a handful of cornflakes and threw them into Lily’s face.

      Don’t be childish, Lily scorned. Mum’ll have a fit if she sees you do that. she picked every flake up and calmly dropped them into her bowl. You’d best make Mum and Dad a cup of tea now or else.

      After I’ve eaten my-

      Now.

      Polly looked into her sister’s eyes; what she could see of them. Lily had the ability to make her eyelids form the tiniest of slits and her lips would become thin slivers of pink as she took on her ‘threatening’ facial expression. Polly stood up and shrugging, walked over to the kettle, flicking out a finger and making it circle in the air before switching the kettle on. You know something? You’re as bossy as Dad.

      Chloe stood in the doorway of the lounge, watching Tom as he marched up and down from one end of the lounge to the other. He was a stocky man, 5cm taller than her at 1.8m. His left hand brushing through his hair, something he always did when he was annoyed, stressed or upset. She hadn’t really wanted him to join the police when his service in the army had finished; she’d already had a good many years of worry. She resigned herself to the fact that he was working just up the road most days, and not hundreds of miles away in another country.  You know we won’t have any carpet left at this rate. Now calm down and tell me what’s happened?

      They’ve given that job to Lisa Larkin.

      You mean the promotion you went for - the Detective Inspector’s vacancy?

      Yes. I can’t believe it! Who in that office has had more arrests and convictions than me, eh? No-one! And they give it to her!

      Come and get some breakfast.

      Don’t want any.

      Chloe kissed him on the cheek, looking deep into his green eyes. Then come and have a cup of tea. The girls are waiting for us to sit with them.  She held out her hand and was relieved when Tom took it. Sometimes these things happen for a reason, you know I believe that Tom.  Don’t forget it’s been pretty tough for Lisa with her husband being out of work for so long. At least this will give them that extra bit of money they need.

      Oh, I know ... just would’ve been nice to have got it, that’s all. Tom replied.

      They walked into the kitchen and were greeted with hot buttered toast and tea.

      Wow! Tea and toast, miracles do happen. Chloe exclaimed, smiling at the girls before turning to Tom. 

      Don’t worry Dad, Lily said, you’re still the best detective we know.

      Not that we know many mind you ... Polly said with a cheeky grin.

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      Colin Royds winced as he felt the egg-shaped lump on the side of his right temple. There was a warm, sticky substance trickling from it and even though he couldn’t see it in the darkness, he knew it couldn’t be anything else but blood. He stood up but the nausea that swept over him forced him immediately to sit back down again on the floor. He ripped off the tape that had been stuck across his mouth and called out.

      Chris? Are you in here son?

      The darkness surrounding him was like a thick black tarmac, he couldn’t tell if it were day or night. The room smelt damp and he could hear water trickling down the walls but couldn’t make out which direction the sound was coming from. Feeling tentatively around his own body and along the floor his hands found clothing

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