Mr. Pin: The Chocolate Files: Vol. II
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Will Mr. Pin survive a “case” of bad chocolate? Can priceless dinosaur eggs be found? And just who is Mort Chisel? In a second story, an opera conductor with a mysterious name disappears in a cloud of blue smoke.
Mary Elise Monsell
Mary Elise Monsell is the author of eight books for children, including Underwear! which has been in print for more than twenty years. She teaches gifted students in Illinois.
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Mr. Pin - Mary Elise Monsell
The Case of the Missing Conductor
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It was midnight and Chicago was cold. Smiling Sally’s diner was closed for the night. But a light was on in the back room. Mr. Pin, famous crime-solving rock hopper penguin, was listening to opera.
Mr. Pin had come from the South Pole to be a detective. He had saved Smiling Sally’s from being blown up by ruthless gangsters. Since then, the diner was his home.
The wind blew newspapers down the alley. Mr. Pin put on his checked cap and red muffler and hopped up onto a crate. Then he raised a pencil into the air and pretended to conduct the opera on the radio.
Suddenly, there was a loud screech in the alley. It wasn’t the wind and it wasn’t the opera. The penguin detective dropped his pencil and hopped off his crate.
Quickly, Mr. Pin put out the light and grabbed a heavy rag mop. He was ready for trouble and trouble seemed to be breaking into the back door of the diner.
Just then, the penguin detective smelled something different. Feathers, he thought. But the feathers weren’t his. As the back door opened slowly, a feather boa fluttered in the draft. A dark figure stepped inside.
Stop right there,
ordered Mr. Pin. I have a large mop.
Please,
said a high-pitched voice. I need your help.
Help,
said Mr. Pin. Then you’ll have to come into my office.
With that, Mr. Pin lowered the mop and led the way for the figure in black.
What’s going on?
said Maggie, who appeared in her bathrobe, red hair in all directions. She lived upstairs with her aunt Sally, two gerbils, and a CB radio.
I’m sorry if it sounded like I was breaking in,
said the high voice in the dark. But I am very famous. I think there might be trouble and I didn’t want anyone to see me come here.
Maggie followed the sound of creaking floorboards to Mr.