The lights shone brightly, reflecting off the giant marble perched proudly on a small a small pillar. Detective Cooper’s mouth dropped as he turned to look at the marble. I stepped away trying to find someone to help by getting us a room to sleep in for the night. I was exhausted from the long day we had just encountered. The night was fast approaching and we decided that it would be best if we slept in the museum, as the sleep would reinstate our situations in a different aspect.
The sun rose, waking me from my dream world into the harsh reality. The sky filled with the sadness and horror, the coldness of the large wooden floor wrapped me up, holding me in a cold fist of ice. A large head loomed over my face as I attempted to get up. I could feel the person’s breath stroking my face. My legs shook as I felt myself standing, looking at a large man. He had brown hair, brown eyes and a large nose that could poke out your eye. He held out his hand, staring, bright eyed, willing me to shake it. I smiled and shook his hand; he looked impressed.
I walked towards the pillar that held the marble I saw last night; the glass case was empty. I looked towards the man and he paused, Terror ran through his eyes as he turned away to look at Detective Cooper. Cooper gave me ‘the look’. The look that always tells me ‘I know.’ This look always told me Cooper’s feelings. I knew how bad this looked. The marble had gone missing and we were the only ones to be suspected.
The large man with the pointed nose took Detective Cooper and me to the basement of the museum, where they had planned to hold us captive. Detective told them of his job, and his only intention of coming to find shelter, the man agreed to let us go if we helped to solve the mystery,
We left the basement and entered the museum. Detective Cooper examined the crime scene and there was a feather sat inside the glass case on the red pillow. The feather seemed to have been from a dove. We scouted the museum, meeting the visitors to the caretaker, Mr Jarryman. He told us the security cameras had been turned off two hours before the scandal, so the robber must have had access to the camera room.
We found a large bird in the staff room, the bird was white and blue with wings that stretched reaching a full meter in length, detective cooper took the feather from the bird as evidence, we met the gardener who said that the bird belongs to Mr Jarryman the caretaker, Mr Jarryman decided to tell us that the bird was part of the gardeners collection, he took us to the gardeners shed where we found a selection of rare and priceless birds, we found a large pigmy dove that has the most beautiful feathers, as white as a cloud on a sunny day, the gardener had lied to us and there was only one reason for lies; to cover up the truth.
DC Cooper and I went to see the gardener who was busy mowing the lawn, he admitted to lying and said his bird collection was the only secret he ever had. I saw a form hidden under a sheet of peter the top of the form read ‘thank you for purchasing the great limply hawk, this will be 2 million pounds’ I stopped and later told the detective who had a suspicion that the gardener could be using the marble to pay for the great limply hawk.
My heart was in my mouth as we entered the museum, I could see a man cleaning evidence from the crime scene; it was Mr Jarryman, why would he be cleaning the crime scene and get rid of important evidence, detective Cooper thought he may be wanting to get rid of evidence leading to him.
The last clue we encountered was a bird that had a large claw on its foot specially made for picking things up, the claw was engraved with the words ‘property of Leaf Masterman’ this is the gardener. All the clues pointed in his direction and we had to point the finger in his direction. The police arrived to arrest him, he confessed and was let off with a warning but was found guilt of assault by forcing Mr Jarryman into cleaning the evidence, so he was not found out this consequently resulted in him receiving 98 hours community service.
By Rebecca Fish
