The Secrets of the Stone: A Lottie Lipton Adventure
Chapter One London 1928 BANG Lottie jumped at the noise almost spilling her cocoa on her cardigan and skirt The sound echoed off the walls of the museum library’s reading room where she was reading her favorite magazine True Mysteries The story was about 1
Detective Inspector Victor Blade of Scotland Yard who was hot on the trail of a local burglar called Bloomsbury Bill Lottie loved to read about DI Blade and couldn’t decide whether to be a detective when she grew up or an archaeologist like her parents Maybe both she thought Lottie climbed out of her special reading nook looking for the source of the bang It looks like I’ve got a mystery of my own to solve she thought Lottie had lived in the British Museum since she was four when her archaeologist parents were killed on a dig in Egypt The museum was a huge building packed with precious 2
artifacts from thousands of years of world history It was dark now The winter sun had set and the museum was closed to the public Lottie left the library and peered down the dark corridor Where had that noise come from Urrgghhh Lottie froze as she heard a low deep moan coming from the South American section She grabbed a nearby pole that they used for opening high windows and tiptoed closer to where the noise was coming from holding the pole like a weapon Just in case she thought Urrrrgggghhhhh 3
