Calamity on Coronado Island, A Floyd Sisters Mystery

By Sinda Cheri Floyd

It's a ghost?

The Floyd sisters, Lynda, Cheri and Sinda, visit their father, Larry, in Coronado Island, California for the summer. Larry is a private investigator hired to protect a movie star filming at a hotel there. A ghost appears threatening to shut down the movie company and suspend all working on the film. The girls decide they need to help their father and figure out what is going on.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sinda Cheri Floyd
• Release date: Aug 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301036509

Sinda Cheri Floyd

Sinda Cheri Floyd is actually a pen name for 2 sisters, Sinda and Cheri, who write mysteries for the Young Reader market. The characters in these stories are loosely based on the 3 Floyd sisters when they were younger. Their older sister is Lynda. Sinda and Cheri have both been teachers professionally and have published many nonfiction articles and books between them. They are having a ball writing these sister stories!

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Calamity on Coronado Island!!

A Floyd Sisters Mystery

Sinda Cheri Floyd

Smashwords Edition

Copyright, 2013

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Thank you for downloading our book! We have enjoyed reliving our childhoods as we wrote these fictionalized stories of our family.

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If you enjoyed this story, please check with Smashwords.com again very soon to see the latest adventure of the Floyd sisters! What will happen to them next? Will Lynda get a boyfriend? Will Cheri get that new gadget? Will Sinda ever stop whining? The next mystery promises to be as much fun as the last one. Check often with Smashwords.com! The books are also available through Apple and Barnes and Noble.

Other books by Sinda Cheri Floyd are:

Tips for the Beginning Detective, A Floyd Sisters Mystery

Danger in Dallas, A Floyd Sisters Mystery

Try the website for fun children’s activities: http://www.floydsistersmystery.com

Download Sinda’s paper dolls!

Try the sisters’ recipe for yummy triple chocolate sundaes!

I bet Ty-Ling would even like them!

A Floyd Sisters Mystery

Calamity on Coronado Island!!

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Author’s bio

Arson in Albuquerque! A Floyd Sisters Mystery sample chapter

CHAPTER 1

Oh no…she’s doing it again, Cheri grumbled.

Doing what? Lynda asked.

Just then a can of grape soda slipped off the windowsill in the kitchen and fell on the kitchen table on Cheri’s new technology magazine. The whole action seemed to go into slow motion with the can falling ever so slowly and grape soda spraying through the air like an abstract painting. Plop! It fell right on the magazine with more grape foam fizzing everywhere. It wasn’t the first time this had happened.

Cheri screamed!

Lynda groaned!

Sinda hid her face behind their Siamese cat Ty-Ling who had jumped into her lap to get a better view of the excitement.

As the older sister, 13-year old Lynda felt it was her duty to take charge of the situation when their mother, Jean, was not at home. Mother was off to work at High Tech Electronics in Richardson, Texas where she worked. This had started off to be a fun summer day when the girls had planned to go swimming at Cheri’s friend Jade’s house.

You know she did that on purpose, yelled Cheri. Why does Mother keep buying grape soda for her? Cheri was not too patient in dealing with their younger sister Sinda. It seemed to Lynda that all they did was fight.

Sinda, being only 8 years old, knew that big sister Lynda would come to her rescue, as usual. She put on her I’m sorry face and appealed to Lynda.

Lynda, you know I didn’t do that on purpose. Cheri just hates me. Why did she have to put her magazine on the table anyway?

"And Sinda Jayne, why do you always have to put your soda can on the windowsill? I swear you two just love to