Note from the Detective’s Files The name is Gummyshoes Jon Gummyshoes I know what you’re thinking funny name right Well that’s not what I’m here to talk about I’m here to tell you the facts The cold hard facts about the cases I come across day in and day out at Edwin West Elementary School The way I see it trouble seems to find me around every corner So I make it my business to clean it up I don’t need this game It needs me The case I’m about to share with you wasn’t my first and it certainly won’t be my last It was all about history the history of a town its battles and its long lost gold I went on a ghost hunt through a haunted forest And I found out that things are never as simple as they seem It was a case that I’ll never forget 6
Chapter 1 Quite the Trip The fourth grade students of Edwin West Elementary and Edwin East Elementary arrived at Triple Crest on separate buses just before nine a m Both schools were there on a trip to study the historical Battle of Triple Crest We had been studying the battle in third period social studies It was a subject I was not entirely in love with No I was only interested in my detective work I rode on the Edwin West Elementary school 8
bus But I was familiar with Edwin East after a brief stint as their resident detective My best pal Larry MacGuffin and yours truly investigated cases at both schools Principal Links and Principal Ant were each chaperoning his school’s bus I discovered a while ago that they used to be classmates but they had not spoken to each other in years I decided this trip would be a fine time to figure out that mystery Both Principal Links and Principal Ant guided their students off the buses We stepped out and inhaled the fresh air I was not usually a fan of field trips but for some odd reason I felt like this would be a good one There were three things that I noticed when we arrived at Triple Crest First I noticed that Triple Crest was surrounded by mountains Second there was a coffee shop at every corner and every single one had a line out the door Apparently the coffee was really good here And 9
