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    Gang of Sleuths: A Tony Pandy Mystery
    Gang of Sleuths: A Tony Pandy Mystery
    Gang of Sleuths: A Tony Pandy Mystery
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    Gang of Sleuths: A Tony Pandy Mystery

    By PV Lundqvist

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    Fourteen-year-old millionaire Tony Pandy solves mysteries from the seat of his wheelchair. Not because he wants to, but because he has to. Losing his home if he doesn’t.

    This time Tony has to find out why the Hindenburg disaster happened.

    "Because it was a big ole bomb-bag,” Tony said. “See, solved. Now I don't have to miss lunch."
    “Like you’d eat it,” his health aide replied. “Besides, maybe it's not that simple."

    And it’s not.

    Tony will have to face a fear he didn’t know that he had—and find out more about the mysterious trust that controls his fortune.

    Then there’s the problem of having squatters on the estate, one of whom just might be the love of Tony’s life. On top of that? She brought her boyfriend.

    As if the mystery wasn’t trouble enough.

    Book 2 of The Tony Pandy Mysteries.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStick Raven
    Release dateFeb 18, 2016
    ISBN9781310082252
    Gang of Sleuths: A Tony Pandy Mystery
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    PV Lundqvist

    PV Lundqvist loves his family, mini-pigs, and baseball. In that order.

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      Gang of Sleuths - PV Lundqvist

      Gang of Sleuths

      A Tony Pandy Mystery

      by

      PV Lundqvist

      Copyright © 2016 PV Lundqvist

      All rights reserved.

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      Cover and design by Rob Peters

      Published by Stick Raven. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced—by any means—without the written consent of the publisher, unless it is for the purposes of writing a review. Then short excerpts are permitted.

      Any trademarks/product names mentioned in the text are incidental and should not be construed as an endorsement or critique of said product.

      This is a work of fiction. The author asserts the right to claim this body of work, without qualification or explanation, and all the characters herein as a product of his imagination.

      Ebook formatting by www.ebooklaunch.com

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      Epilogue

      About the Author

      Other Books by PV

      Reader Note

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      Tony poked at the overstuffed envelope with his collapsible pointer. He had never used it to point with, like ever, just as a handy way to extend his reach from his wheelchair.

      He poked it again.

      His health aide, Hawes, laughed like a horse snorting. Afraid it might explode?

      (Maybe.)

      Within the still-sealed manila envelope was ASSIGNMENT TWO: The mystery Tony would have to solve in order to keep himself and his mother living at the estate. Otherwise he risked the very real possibility of getting kicked out by the HofLove trust.

      Quit stalling, Hawes said. It’s been sitting there since Saturday.

      "That was only two days ago."

      Clock’s ticking.

      According to the trust’s lawyer, Dorchester Foulke, Tony only had a month to solve whatever mystery was held within.

      Twenty-eight days remained.

      He tapped the part of the envelope that was smeared with a gray-metal liquid. Long since dried. Whatever was inside leaked.

      Hawes scrunched up his face. So?

      What if it’s poisonous? Or radioactive?

      Yeah, uh-huh. The health aide wasn’t buying it. Because a trust created by your father would do that. Hawes waved his hand at the package in a clear display of get on with it.

      I can’t. Tony switched his tone to commanding. "You open it…employee."

      Now why do you have to go and call me that? Sets my teeth on edge.

      Tony stared at Hawes, and his health aide didn’t so much as blink back. "Okay, you win. What if I say please?"

      If you had started that way—

      Can’t we just pretend I wasn’t a jerk?

      Hawes picked up the bulging envelope and dumped it in Tony’s lap. "That’s for calling me ‘employee.’ He handed Tony a letter opener from the desk.

      Tony took the opener, handle first, and briefly considered stabbing Hawes in the hand with it.

      Didn’t.

      Who would wipe his butt later?

      Somebody open it! Tony’s mom’s voice thundered through the intercom, surprising everyone.

      Why don’t you come on over and do it? Tony asked, knowing that was never going to happen. He hadn’t seen his mother in ten years. She was a shut-in, never leaving her house located on a different part of the estate.

      Okay, okay, Hawes said, his hands spread out in surrender. I’ll open it. He put a finger inside the flap and tore a wide hole. He spilled the contents on the desk.

      Piles of black and white photos, mostly of a long, cigar-shaped craft. A faded brochure with the words 2 Days to Europe! Take a trip on the Hamburg-American line on the—

      Hindenburg? Tony read aloud.

      Didn’t that blow up a long time ago? Hawes asked.

      In the pile there were folders full of ship designs and historical documents and a cracked glass vial with a tag attached with a twist tie. It read: CLUE #1.

      Tony held the vial up. It still had a little of that gray goo inside. "This is what leaked all over. Whatever it is."

      Look at all this stuff, Hawes said. It could take a month just to go through it all!

      Mom chimed in. But what is the assignment?

      Hawes searched among the pile until he found a single sheet of paper that Tony could see had one sentence written on it in large font.

      What does it say? Tony was impatient.

      ‘Why did the Hindenburg disaster happen?’

      "Because it was a big ole bomb-bag. See? Solved. Now I don’t have to miss lunch."

      Like you’d eat it, Hawes said. Tony was well known to have little to no appetite. Besides, maybe it’s not that simple.

      It was an airship filled with the most explosive element known to man, hydrogen. One spark and BOOM.

      So why’d the builders use something so nasty?

      It also has the greatest amount of lift of any gas.

      But it’s dangerous!

      So is gasoline, Tony said. But you use that in your motorcycle every day.

      Good point, actually. Then Hawes got that scrunchy eyebrow thing he always did when he couldn’t figure something out. Wait, isn’t water made with hydrogen? H2O? And that’s like anti-fire.

      (Seriously?)

      Anti-fire? And this was coming from a college graduate. Sometimes Tony’s head hurt.

      It’s not the elements themselves, Tony explained. It’s the mixture.

      "So what did spark up the Hindenburg?"

      That Tony didn’t know. He whirred over in his mobile wheelchair to the computer on the desk and lowered his retinal mouse to begin searching.

      Hawes picked a page out from the spill of documents on the desk. Wait up. This says ‘Instructions. Rule number one, Tony Pandy is forbidden to use the Internet to research this assignment.’

      Uh huh, Tony said as he made with the clickety.

      Hawes continued reading. ‘If caught, this will result in…’

      Tony scrolled his web results.

      ‘…immediate forfeiture of all estate property, funds, and use thereof—‘

      Blah, blah, blah, Tony interrupted. He clicked on a link with the words: Hindenburg Solved!

      Nothing. It was grayed out.

      Somebody is censoring my results, Tony said. Mom?

      Not me! I wouldn’t know how to do that anyway.

      (Bet she knows someone who could.)

      Maybe it’s a bad link? she offered.

      Tony clicked on multiple webpages. Not one went to a webpage it pointed to.

      Or, maybe, Hawes said quietly, like he was trying to keep the thought on the down low, it’s the trust.

      Tony nodded.

      Bonaparte, his pet trained Capuchin, nodded too. Probably more from mimicry than anything else.

      Hawes, Tony began, use your smartphone to look this up.

      Hold up, I’m not done reading the instructions. As Hawes read, Tony could swear he could see his lips move. It also says you can’t use a proxy to search the internet. What’s a proxy?

      You or mom or whoever.

      That means I can’t either, Tony!

      How are they supposed to know?

      Oh, I don’t know, Hawes said, clearly meaning the opposite. Anybody good enough to mess with your internet just might be good enough to be checking on mine!

      Tony back and forthed his motorized wheelchair. A habit he had while thinking. Either way, there goes my chance of solving this by lunch.

      Like you’d eat it,

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