Chapter One My name is Lark Ba and I was cooling my heels Well not really My heels weren’t hot Cool your heels is something my halmoni that’s Korean for grandmother says when I’m really excited to do something but I have to be patient-like and wait Right now I was waiting for my mom and dad to finish getting ready I was cooling my heels with my dog Max We sat next 1
to my little brother Connor He wasn’t cooling his heels like me and Max though He was studying Connor was reading a book about baking Did you know North Americans eat two billion cookies every year he asked That’s a lot of cookies I said This book says it works out to three hundred cookies a person Connor closed his book and looked at me serious-like Do you know what that means Someone has been eating our cookies I said because there’s no way Mom and Dad let us have three hundred cookies a year Do you think they eat our share when we’re sleeping That would explain why they’re always so strict about bedtime I said 2
And why they don’t like us getting out of bed and going to the kitchen to get a glass of water added Connor We’ll have to do some I tried to think of the word It started with a k or an o and it was a great word that meant secret I couldn’t think of it so I said Secret investigating If we put our heads together we can solve this mystery He made a frowny face Can we be our own clients That summer Connor and I had investigators We’d become private found the missing key to the library for Mrs Robinson recovered stolen diamond earrings for the Lees and discovered who had been playing pranks at the community theater Being a P I is a lot of fun I like figuring out puzzles and putting clues 3
