The Headless Mummy

by Dave Keane

  I roll my eyes. “I told Mrs. Klopper to keep the whole thing to herself, to not mention anything about it,” I say to Hailey before I open the car’s back door. “It’s better that way for everyone involved. That includes you.”

  “Or what?” Hailey snips. “Are you gonna sit on me till I pop, too? Haven’t you killed enough sisters for one day?” She finally grows tired of waiting for me to open the door and she looks me in the eyes. “Okay already! My lips are zipped, brother big butt.”

  I believe her.

  As we climb into the backseat of my mom’s car, I’m struck by the fact that I’ve done it again. I’ve solved my fourth case as a private detective.

  But there will be no stories about this in the Baskerville Daily News. No certificate of thanks from the museum. And no bragging around the dinner table. This is the kind of case that’s better left a secret.

  But that’s okay with me.

  Every case closed brings me one step closer to life as a detective and gives me a little more proof that I was born with a gift.

  About the Author

  DAVE KEANE has been an avid Sherlock Holmes fan since he was a kid. He even insisted on going to the Sherlock Holmes Museum while on his honeymoon in London, England. Today he lives in Northern California with his wife, Christine, and their three junior detectives. He now solves everyday mysteries like “Where are my car keys?” and “Who left the garage door open?” The Joe Sherlock series is his debut in children’s books.

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  Case #000003: The Missing Monkey-Eye Diamond

  Credits

  Cover art © 2007 by David J. Keane

  Cover design by Christopher Stengel

  Copyright

  JOE SHERLOCK, KID DETECTIVE, CASE #000004: THE HEADLESS MUMMY. Copyright © 2007 by David J. Keane. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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