The Pleasantville Junior Detective Agency: The Great Denture Swap: Book 3

By Johnny Copper

Do you love to read children's mysteries? If so, you will find The Pleasantville Junior Detective Agency enjoyable. It's about a 9-year-old boy named Perry Winkle who becomes the neighborhood junior detective. Test your detective skills and see if you can solve the case before neighborhood junior detective Perry Winkle.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Junior Detective Files
• Release date: Jan 10, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224973439

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Chapter 1

The Case of the Cool Criminal

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In a small town in the Midwest called Pleasantville, lived a special boy named Perry Winkle. Now you may not think he’s special, but Perry spent most of his time solving neighborhood crimes. You see, Perry was a junior detective for the Pleasantville Junior Detective Agency. 

Although he didn’t work for the Pleasantville Police Department or the Federal Bureau of Investigation, his investigative skills were sought by many who lived in and around his neighborhood. Unlike the PPD or FBI, most of his were kids his own age.

Perry Winkle also read The Old Time Mystery stories in a shabby shack he converted into the office of the Pleasantville Junior Detective Agency.

Each month he received a new issue packed with high-octane cases from around the country during the ‘40s and ‘50s. He would spend hours absorbing the facts of the latest series, taking in the clues. It was a game he played—see if he could solve the case before the end of the chapter. This hobby began two years ago and so far, none of the crimes had stumped the junior detective. He had figured out each crime and how the criminal did it.

You wouldn’t guess it by looking at Perry, but he looked like almost any fourth-grade boy and acted like one too, except he never liked to talk about himself. The detectives in the mystery stories were good listeners.

He was just a skinny boy with a mop of brown hair and big feet for a kid of nine.

Perry set the latest article of The Old Time Mystery on the dining room table. His father had just walked through the front door and took a seat at the head of the table.

His parents, who owned a local convenience store called One Stop Shop, always arrived for dinner at their home. They all lived together in a red brick house on Lunar Drive.

Is that where your mystery magazine belongs? his mother asked.

No, ma’am. Perry swiped the booklet from the table and set it on top of a stool next to the bar.

How are things going at the store, Dad?

Mr. Winkle sighed as he used a fork and knife to cut his steak. "There’s been a lot of stealing over the past week. All the items stolen