The Quicksand Question (6 page)

Collect clues with Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose
in their next exciting adventure,

THE RUNAWAY RACEHORSE

Just then the door burst open. A blond woman in jeans and riding boots rushed into the kitchen.

“Hi, Sunny,” Forest said. “Say hello to Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose. They’re here to watch you and Whirlaway win tomorrow.”

“He’s run away!” Sunny said, trying to catch her breath.

“Who’s run away?”

“Whirlaway!” she said. “I found his stall door open—and he’s gone!”

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Text copyright © 2002 by Ron Roy

Illustrations copyright © 2002 by John Steven Gurney

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roy, Ron.
The quicksand question / by Ron Roy ; illustrated by John Steven Gurney.
p. cm. — (A to Z mysteries) “A Stepping Stone book.”
Summary: When someone steals the money the town has been collecting to help the ducks, Josh and his friends try to find the thief.
eISBN: 978-0-307-54349-3
[1. Robbers and outlaws—Fiction. 2. Ducks—Fiction. 3. Mystery and detective stories.] I. Gurney, John, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.R8139 Qu 2002     [Fic]—dc21     2002017827

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