The Pleasantville Junior Detective Agency To Catch a Jewel Thief

By Johnny Copper

Do you love to read children’s mysteries? If so, you will find The Pleasantville Junior Detective Agency enjoyable. It’s about a 9-year-old boy named Perry Winkle who becomes the neighborhood junior detective. The reader tries to uncover each clue and solve the case, such as The Case of the Stolen Yu-Gi-Oh Cards, or The Great Train Robbery. For those that haven’t cracked the case by the end, they can turn to the last page of each chapter and see how Perry solved it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Johnny Copper
• Release date: May 28, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463196649

Johnny Copper

Johnny Copper achieved the rank of Command Master Chief before retiring after 22 years in the United States Navy. He is a graduate of the Senior Enlisted Academy and the Command Master Chief School. He was born in Pensacola, Florida and enlisted in the Navy 1989. His hobbies include running, reading, and fishing with his grandson.After retiring from the Navy, he and his family moved back to Florida. He’s been married for 25 years and has two children and one grandson. James has a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Management from Grand Canyon University.

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The Pleasantville Junior Detective Agency

To Catch a Thief

Johnny Copper

Copyright Johnny Copper 2015

Published by CreateSpace

© 2015 by Johnny Copper

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publishers, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a newspaper, magazine or journal.

The final approval for this literary material is granted by the author.

First digital version

All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Print ISBN: 978-1507734629

PUBLISHED BY CREATESPACE

Print edition produced in the United States of America

This book is dedicated to my nephew, Christian. Through him, Perry Winkle was born.

Acknowledgments

There are many people I want to thank for making this book possible. First is CreateSpace for turning my story into a reality. Without their support, The Pleasantville Junior Detective Agency Series would never have made it to print. I also want to thank my many family and friends who supported me on my journey. I would like to thank the many children who read the stories and gave great feedback on getting me in the mindset of a nine-year-old. And Finally, I would like to thank you, the reader, for reading my book. I hope you had as much fun reading the stories as I had writing them.

Chapters

I. To Catch a Jewel Thief

II. The Case of the Stolen Yu-Gi-Oh

Cards

III. The Case of the Missing Headdress

IV. The Bank Robbery

V. Who Stole My Lunch?

VI. Who Robbed the Bank?

VII. The Case of Mistaken Identity

VIII. The Case of Escape Artist

IX. Who’s Telling the Truth?

X. The Great Train Robbery

Chapter 1

To Catch a Jewel Thief

If you ever get the chance to visit a small town in the Midwest called Pleasantville, you might run into a special boy named Perry Winkle.

He was a skinny boy with a mop of brown hair and big feet for a kid of nine.

You wouldn’t guess it by looking at Perry, but he looked like almost any fourth-grade boy and acted like one too, except he never liked to talk about himself. The detectives in the mystery stories were good listeners.

On this particular Saturday afternoon, Perry grabbed the latest issue of The Old-Time Mystery from the kitchen counter and walked out to his office — a shabby shack in the back yard.

Each month he received a new issue packed with high-octane cases from around the country during the ‘40s and ‘50s. He would spend hours absorbing the facts of the latest series, taking in the clues. It was a game he played — see if he could solve the case before the end of the chapter. This hobby started two years ago and so far, none of the crimes had stumped the junior detective. He had figured out each crime and how the criminal