DM-Melanie+W

Hello, My name is Melanie. I have brown eyes and brown hair to match. I have one brother named Edward and a dog named Sprocket. I am moving very soon, but just to a different street and I am extremly excited to go because I will be living by my best friend Josie ( who is also in my class). I love to play basketball, swim, and my favorite subject is gym. My favorite colour is yellow and my whole family is from Newfoundland except my brother and me. This May my class and I are going to Quebec for 4 days, I can't wait to go! I haven't really yet tried any food that I don't like, anything spicy or sour I love (: I love to go to the mall with my friends and go to the movie theatres, and I love staying up all night at sleepovers! We own a small orange sailboat and I adore jumping off the boat into the lake. Our boat is named the "Cup-a-tea" My whole family is very energetic and love to try something new. I really like the name Noella it's a really pretty name.(:

"Beep beep, beep beep, beep beep" My low quality cell phone was ringing once again to tell me someone had a mystery for me to solve. Unfortunately it was 2:30 in the morning and I was in no mood to be up solving a mystery. "Hello. This is Detective Jenkins, what is your problem?" I began to say in to the receiver. "My dogs collar is missing!" the voice on the other end shrieked. "Well Miss, maybe you should try a tighter collar next time so it will not fall off, goodnight." I said rudely, I mean, it was 2:30 in the morning and I only got home at 12:00 because of a deadline at the office. "No! You must find it! It was stolen I'm sure! It was probably the Butler, or maybe the gardener! You must hurry it's urgent! I live on 222 Cumberland Avenue!" The voice begged me to come. "Alright Alright. Be there in about, 30 minutes." and then I hung up the phone. That meant 30 more minutes of sleep for me then my stress would begin all over again. I made my way to the refrigerator at about 2:50 to grab the last tasteless bran muffin and began my drive to Cumberland. Well known for it's stuck up rich house owners. I made my way up 5 carpeted steps to the front door. I tapped on the front door and pressed the golden doorbell at 222 Cumberland Ave. "Yes,Yes, come on in! I'm in the diamond room!" the voice said casually like everyone had a room just for diamonds. I made my way to a glittering room with an excellent view of the stream. The sat a lady who looked like she was in her late 30's stringing diamonds onto a silver thread with a tiny chihuahua on her lap. "This will have to do until I get her collar back." She mumbled. "Detective Jenkins," I introduced myself with my hand outstretched "Can I get a description of the collar please?" She looked at me then my hand, and said "I'm Mildred Cunning,the collar had many diamonds and rocks stringed onto a gold string, with a gold clasp of course, you know, the usual." She said with pride. "I see why someone would want to steal it." I mumbled. "Emerald, Diamond, Ruby was the order of the jewels, also with a 4 karat gold bead in between each one." She said while stringing several fat diamonds on the silver string. Time to examine the house. I began searching in the kitchen, then on to the dining room, and then the bathroom and upstairs. It was a surprisingly small house, for a millionaire that is. I began to lose all hope until I saw the butler. I ruby as red as a rose was in his palm. "Excuse me sir! Where did you find that ruby?" I shouted after him. "Oh, I was just looking for you!" he said. He handed me the ruby with care. "Where did you find this?" I asked again. "On the floor." He said without hesitation. How could //he// find a ruby about the size of a dime in this huge house when I had been searching all morning? "May I get your name sir?" I asked. "Al, Al Lidman" he replied curtly. I wrote this down in the black notebook under my "suspect list." I continued my search down the hall. I only got about 5 steps away when I heard a slight clinking sound on the marble floor behind me. I spun around to see Al with wide eyes and a guilty look on his face when two more rubies fell from his pocket. We stood staring at each other for awhile. "Al..." I began to say. "Look! I just found these on the floor! What a coincidence!" He fumbled. He speed walked all the way to the kitchen. I sauntered over to the rubies, this could be easier than I thought. I spied over Al all morning, he would go up to the library then return, look around the room then take the jewels out of his pocket and look at them with admiration and sometimes polish them in his silk jacket. I had many ways of getting him to leave them around for me to pick up. Sometimes I would pop up and question him until he got so nervous and sweaty the jewels would slip right out of his hand. Another affective tactic was placing a shiny quarter or dime in the bright light of a flashlight and then Al would pick of the quarter appearing to be a glittery diamond and put it in his pocket without examining it closely enough to see it was actually a worthless coin and nothing he could get for more than 1 penny on Ebay, then as he was bending over to pick up this seemingly diamond a ruby or a couple emeralds would slide out of his silk pockets. By lunch I had all the jewels and even the string in my grasp. "I found your jewels, and the person who stole them." I bragged to Mildred. "Fabulous Jenkins, fine job indeed." She said. I thought my mystery had been solved, the easiest case I've ever done, I said the name of the thief proudly, "It was Al who stole your dog's collar," She looked at me curiously. I suspected she was just surprised that her trusted butler who do such a thing so I slipped over to the closet and grabbed my coat and began to leave the elegant home when the manicured hand of Mildred stopped me. "Mr. Jenkins, you said the mans name was Al Lidman, my butler, correct?" Her voice was tense. "Yes, Al Lidman." I answered curtly. "Mr. Jenkins you must be mistaken, I do not have a butler named Al Lidman.." And before I knew it I was whisked into a whole other case.