Bagel Helps Find Robin Hood

By Edward Coburn

When a seven year old boy, affectionately known as Robin Hood, by his friends and family goes missing, it is up to Adam, Marti, and Sheriff Stibbens to follow the clues provided by Bagel, Adam’s pet beagle, to find Robin Hood as quickly as they can so he can be reunited with his parents.

This is a short story of approximately 13,000 words. There are five full-length books as part of this series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Edward Coburn
• Release date: Sep 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301219186

Edward Coburn

Edward J. Coburn is a computer programmer and a long-time writer. He began his writing career while teaching college when he started writing textbooks. Now, with many textbooks to his credit, he began seriously writing fiction in about 1996. His first book, Order of the White Feather: The sword of Dalamar may be purchased at Smashwords along with his latest book The Last Killer Standing. He is now writing a new alphabetical series of books beginning with The Dog Who Ate The Airplane: An Adam And Bagel Mystery Book 1. The Dog Who Ate The Burglar: An Adam And Bagel Mystery Book 2 was released in November 2012 and The Dog Who Ate The Crossbow: An Adam And Bagel Mystery Book 3 was released December 2012. The Dog Who Ate The Drawing: An Adam And Bagel Mystery Book 4 was released April 2013, The Dog Who Age The Elephant: An Adam And Bagel Mystery Book 5 was released September 2013 and the short story Bagel Helps Find Robin Hood was also released September 2013. His wizard book Aaron Franks Attends the Montana Academy for Advanced Magic and Wizard Studies The Order of Magic: Book 1 was released January 2014. His second Wizard book Aaron Franks and the Treasure of Leonardo was released September 2014.

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Bagel helps find Robin Hood

By

Edward J. Coburn

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Ed’s Website: EdwardJCoburn.com

Copyright 2013 by Edward J. Coburn. All rights reserved.

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Table Of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

About The Author

Connect With Ed

Chapter 1

Early Thursday morning, Adam Martin Swope rolled over to be almost blinded by the mid-June sun slanting through the window. He put his arm over his eyes and groaned. Oh no, not again. Bagel, Adam’s miniature beagle, had recently started to pull the curtains aside in the morning. He did this when he thought it was time for Adam and Adam’s beautiful girlfriend, Marti Blossom, to get up and let him and Butter, his companion, also a miniature beagle, out to do their duty.

Don’t worry about it, Sweetheart. I’ll do it.

No you don’t. Adam pulled the covers back, pivoted, and sat up. It’s my duty, and I’ll do it. He looked in the direction of the bedroom door and caught sight of Bagel’s disappearing tail.

When Adam walked into the living room, he immediately spied the Boggle shaker box upended on the floor with seven of the dice separated from the rest.

Adam had inherited Bagel from his mother when she’d succumbed to the cancer that had ravaged her frail body. She’d told him that Bagel wasn’t any ordinary beagle but, like Adam himself, Bagel was at least a bit psychic. He’d learned when Bagel separated dice out of the collection of Boggle dice, he and Marti could make words out of the letters on the dice. Invariably, one of those words had something to do with a mystery in which Adam was currently involved. The other game Bagel liked to play was what Adam called colors. In this game, Bagel would retrieve a particular color toy from his large collection of stuffed and rubber toys when asked. He would also sometimes pick out toys on his own if he needed to convey some color concept to Adam. Or, regardless of what color was requested, he might continually return the same color. He had thus used colored toys to lead Adam and Marti to Red Valley twice and to Blue Creek once. Blue Creek was a small town north of Charleston, West Virginia—not actually a creek. Charleston was about an hour north of where Adam lived in the comfortable, small town of Canary Corners.

At present, Bagel had built a small mound of blue toys. Adam had no idea what that meant. He was not currently embroiled in any controversy. He decided to leave the Boggle dice and colored toys until Marti joined him.

Adam had settled in Canary Corners to work for his lifelong friend Larry Archibald as a reporter for the Canary Corners newspaper, the Tweet. Larry had bought the Tweet and moved from Chicago, where Adam had also worked for him. According to the deal Adam made with Larry, he could write about whatever he wished, but Adam’s favorite research was the police beat. He’d worked as a crime reporter in both New York and Chicago. He’d suspected, though, there wasn’t much crime in rural West Virginia. This had proved, however, to be not altogether correct as there had been a number of murders and other mysteries since Adam had settled in Canary Corners.

Adam looked again at the Boggle dice and thought about telling Marti that Bagel was at it again, but he thought he’d let her sleep if she’d managed to go back to sleep after he’d gotten up. He doubted she did, but he wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. Thus, he looked over at Bagel and Butter lying in their traditional positions at the end of the couch. All right, guys, time to go out. Bagel looked up at him and immediately got