The Milo & Jazz Mysteries: The Case of the July 4th Jinx
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Chapter onE Milo stared at the white-frosted cake topped with tiny American flags More frosting red and blue spelled out Happy Fourth of July So much frosting The Fourth wasn’t until tomorrow That must be why the cake hadn’t been cut into slices like everything else on the bake-sale table It still looked perfect Perfectly delicious His finger inched toward it Nobody would miss a tiny dab 5
Looks real doesn’t it The teenage boy by the table grinned down at Milo His official fair badge said WINSTON It isn’t real Milo asked Nope just for show the boy said All the rest is real though I promise Milo glanced at his friend Jazz She was looking at the pies with his brother Ethan Lucky she hadn’t caught him being
Jazz and Milo were detectives in fooled by a fake cake After all detectives were supposed to be careful observers training They got lessons by mail from world-famous private eye Dash Marlowe With a little help from Dash they had already cracked a few real-life cases Can I have this Milo Ethan called across the table
