Figaro the Cat Detective and the Great Pumpkin Disaster

By Barry Durham

The pumpkins are all ready for the Hallowe’en Jack-o’-Lantern competition in Grandad Gordon’s allotment when someone creeps in at the dead of night and smashes them all to bits!
Figaro the Cat Detective, and his trusty sidekick Harrison the toad, have just twenty-four hours to solve the mystery and help save the day.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781326045647

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Figaro the Cat Detective and the Great Pumpkin Disaster

Figaro the Cat Detective and the Great Pumpkin Disaster

First self-published as an ebook in Great Britain in October 2014 thanks to the opportunities offered by Lulu.com

Barry Durham asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Acts of 1988

© Barry Durham 2014

Original illustrations

© Abi Griffin 2014

All rights reserved

ISBN 978-1-326-04564-7

This story is a work of fiction. The resemblance of any of the characters to any persons or animals, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

For my grandson Evan

Chapter One: Mrs Prickles reports a crime

It had been warm for October and Mrs Felicity Prickles was late going to bed for the winter. She was curling up comfortably in the pile of leaves in the corner of old Grandad Gordon’s allotment when she heard a noise.

What, the hedgehog thought to herself, are people doing here at this time of night?

She unrolled herself and crept quietly through the leaves until she could poke her nose out. The beam of a torch shone through the dark and she could just make out two figures creeping stealthily past the runner beans and broccoli until they came to the pumpkin patch. Here was Grandad’s pride and joy; the wonderful large orange fruits that he grew for the children of the village to carve into lanterns for Hallowe’en.

Mrs Prickles frowned. Surely someone wasn’t going to steal one?