But Jeff, David, and Claire can't make the clues fit. Then the police discover a ransom note, and everyone is in search of a kidnaper. Summary: When a camper disappears from the dangerous lookout at Skull Cliff, the cousins wonder if it is the old town curse at work.
I had fun imagining Jeff, David, and Claire doing the same thing, but in a real mystery. When camping as a child, my siblings and I wondered about scary noises coming from the woods and odd formations in rocky cliffs that resembled faces. "Guys, I've got an idea." Claire was already climbing down from the high platform. "So how're we going to fish it out?" David asked. They could see that the object at the bottom of the lake had not been moved since yesterday. : On the island the next morning, the cousins climbed their lookout tower. Before they know it, the kids of Cabin Creek are in too deep. Everyone is a suspect-and the cousins are all in danger. It's too dark to identify anyone-or anything. But the cousins immediately suspect foul play, and plunge right into the mystery. Summary: It's the middle of the night when Jeff spots someone dumping a large bundle into the lake. When the boat sped into the darkness, we imagined there'd been a murder and a body tossed overboard! We could see someone with a flashlight, then we heard a splash as if something heavy had been thrown in. In the middle of the night we heard the putt-putt-putt of a little motorboat. This mystery stems from a trip to Jackson Lake in the Tetons with the boys. Cabin Creek #1: The Secret of Robber's Cave
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Kids will love #8! As with all the other adventures, chapters are short-ish with suspense and fun, full of my hopes for turning reluctant readers into real readers. The Cabin Creek Mysteries is the most requested of my four series, for follow-up stories.
My youngest son, Cody Rutty, drew the map that appears in each front then he added chapter drawings for #7 : The Phantom of Hidden Horse Ranch, which I published myself on Amazon ( paperback and e-book). So I did! I named the mountain town Cabin Creek, because those two words formed a pretty picture in my mind, and Scholastic published the first six. My boys as adults urged me to write the Jeff and David stories so other children could enjoy them, and learn the gently-taught morals I had woven into the plots (respect your elders, be kind and honest).
"Do you want to hear a Jeff and David story?" became a bedtime lure that worked every single time.įast forward. From that night and thereafter, they listened and grew sleepy as I would make up stuff on the fly, often blending in their own mischief and troubles from the day. They live in log cabins in the woods by a lake, they solve mysteries, and they each have their very own dog."Īw, the mention of dogs hit a soft spot. My mind raced for random names, "Uh, Jeff and David," I answered then remembering my red-headed niece and that she and my boys yearned to have a pet, I added, "Guess what? They have cousin with red hair, named Claire Posey.
That is until I thought to ask if they'd like to hear a story about two brothers who were naughty and got in trouble. When our sons were ages two and four, getting them to bed without an uproar was a miracle.