The Missing Tulip Bulbs

By Nancy T. Lucas

Who would steal 700 tulip bulbs? Scout and his friends are back in their third adventure in “The Springer Spaniel Mysteries” series! In “The Missing Tulip Bulbs”, Scout and his friends search for the culprits and the answer to this burning question. They need to find the bulbs and replant them so that the annual spring party, The Impromptu Tulip Mania Party, will go on as planned. Delicious food was expected and without the flowers, the party will be canceled. Scout suspects his best friend, Chisolm, and also learns interesting new facts about squirrels and why they can count so high.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nancy T. Lucas
• Release date: Jan 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9780983875161

Nancy T. Lucas

Award-winning author Nancy T. Lucas lives in Charleston, SC. She received a BRAG Medallion Honoree award in 2014 for "A Ghostly Tail" and a Red Ribbon from The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards (UK) in 2014 for "The Missing Tulip Bulbs". In addition to writing and illustrating "The Springer Spaniel Mysteries" series, she has been a cartoon contributor for the Charleston Mercury since 2006. She also branched out in 2015 and published a humorous, creepy novel about a vampire searching for her identity. Scout is her favorite Springer Spaniel and she insists on writing silly stories about his capers. However, things get a bit chaotic when NEW PUPPY (Benne Wafer - that's Mr. Wafer to you) joins the Montagu Street gang.

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The Missing Tulip Bulbs

written and illustrated by

Nancy T. Lucas

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Also by Nancy T. Lucas

In the Springer Spaniel Mysteries series

The Missing Boston Terriers of Smith Street

A Ghostly Tail

The Springer Spaniel Mysteries

(includes all three mysteries plus a new fourth adventure, The Curse of the Carriage Mule)

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ISBN-10: 0-9838751-6-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-9838751-6-1

Copyright © 2014 Nancy T. Lucas

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Dedication

For my husband John and our Springer Spaniels

Elwood, Scout and Benne Wafer

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May every day be a dog party.

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Chapter 1 - New Puppy

The next morning, Scout jumped out of his bed and went downstairs with Dad. Dad always brewed coffee before his shower and gave Scout a cookie. Scout knew what to expect every day: a cookie and the smell of coffee.

scout looking out the back screen door

Scout went outside into the chilly, sunny day; nothing appeared out of the ordinary in his back yard so he batted the back door’s screen with his paw and Dad let him back in. But something was amiss inside. Instead of going back to bed to sleep in on a Saturday morning, his people, Mumma and Dad, seemed to be rushing about, getting ready to leave. Worse, no one invited Scout to get in the back of the station wagon and they knew he loved car rides. A few minutes later he was alone.

scout looking out the glass posrch door alone

The house was silent. He took a nap in the living room. The kitchen was drafty in the winter. Usually someone came by to play with him if both of his people left. He didn’t have to wait long before Minimum Will, a friend of Mumma’s, clomped in, wearing overalls. He carried a large duffle bag that smelled, to Scout, like laundry.

Will stuffed a load of clothes in the washer and said, Hey, Scouty. What’s up? He was called Minimum Will because he preferred to own as few material things as possible in his very small apartment, so he certainly did not own a washer and dryer. Scout had been to Minimum’s apartment several times on walks to pick up or drop off laundry.

Scout hopped up and down next to the front door. Will grinned and said, Let’s go for a walk!

And walk they did, down Montagu Street to Coming Street,