Hailey Haddie's Minute Mysteries Time Travel History: 15 Short Stories For Young Sleuths: Hailey Haddie's Minute Mysteries, #4

By Marina J. Bowman

You are invited to travel back in time with famous amateur detective Hailey Haddie to solve history-themed supernatural crimes. 

Use your detective skills to tackle hidden clues, tricky puzzles, wacky suspects, and relentless riddles.

You can read each mystery in about a minute and solve it in a few more.

Someone put a sleeping spell on King Arthur of Camelot. Who did it? Only YOU can figure it out.

 

Peek inside...
✓ 15 Short Interactive Mysteries: Got a minute? Solve a mystery! Perfect bites of intrigue for bedtime tales or highway trails!

✓ Engaging Magical & Mythical Favorites: Tales of legends and lore designed to entertain and captivate young hearts! 

✓ Educational Fun: Reading games designed to engage growing minds and develop comprehension and critical thinking skills. 

✓ Fun Brainteasers for the Entire Family: Dive into puzzles everyone can tackle! Kids stumped? Time for a family brainstorm!

✓ Illustrations that Pop: Fun doodle style illustrations throughout bring Hailey's detective world to life.

 

Get Hailey Haddie's Minute Mysteries and inspire your child to fall in love with reading, one short mystery at a time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marina J. Bowman
• Release date: Feb 13, 2024
• ISBN: 9781962635059

Book preview

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For aspiring amateur detectives with a knack for history— you have been challenged!

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2023 by Code Pineapple

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner except for the use of quotations in a book review.

Written by Marina J. Bowman

Published by Code Pineapple

www.codepineapple.com

Contents

Prologue

1. The Case of the

Lost Lapis Lazuli

2. The Case of the

Saloon Secret

3. The Case of the

Diner Dash

4. The Case of the

Gladiator Gambit

5. The Case of the

Royal Ruse

6. The Case of the

Cave Conundrum

7. The Case of the

Potion Problem

8. The Case of the

Salem Scandal

9. The Case of the

Petrified Passenger

10. The Case of the

Blueprint Burglary

11. The Case of the

Reptile Riddle

12. The Case of the

Inheritance Intrigue

13. The Case of the

Camelot Curse

14. The Case of the

Trident Test

15. The Case of the

Enigmatic Egyptian

Epilogue

Mystery-Solving Tips

MYSTERIES SOLVED

Discussion Questions

About the Author

For Detective Eyes Only:

From potion problems to royal ruses, I love to solve all mysteries! I may be known as the famous Hailey Haddie nowadays, but once I was just a young vampire detective with big dreams. Maybe you heard about me from junior crime solver Ellie Scaredy Bat Spark.

In the following pages, you will find a sampling of history-themed experiences taken from my case book. In these accounts, every clue necessary to the solution is given. The answer is in the story itself. You need look nowhere else.

These short stories can be read in about a minute and solved in a few more. The doodles that I have included may or may not be helpful for solving the mysteries. And some details in the story may lead to false conclusions.

I hope you will find them as enjoyable to read and solve as they were to record.

Good luck, detective!

—Hailey Haddie

Prologue

Present Day

In a world filled with magic, mystical creatures, and other oddities, the time machine shouldn’t have been such a strange sight. Maybe it was the tangle of wires and lights wrapped around it. Or possibly the thick stream of smoke billowing from the narrow chimney at the top. But I couldn’t take my eyes off the coffin-turned-time-machine.

I couldn’t believe that I had agreed to not only get into this smoking contraption, but to travel back in time to solve fifteen mysteries in a row. Even though Lou the inventor had explained many times, I still wasn’t sure how he managed to erase the detectives of the past. However, I knew I could help. I could go back in time and solve their mysteries—or at least I hoped.

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I can do this. I’m Hailey Haddie, the great vampire detective, I whispered to myself, trying to boost my confidence. I gulped. The thought of time travel made my hands tremble.

A pungent gray puff of smoke wafted my way, clouding my thoughts and lungs. I coughed on the stench of burnt coffee and gasoline, but Lou didn’t seem to notice.

Lou ran his tongue across one of his vampire fangs as he tightened a bolt on the malfunctioning time machine. With a few more turns and a kick, the machine lit up like a Christmas tree. Lou ran a greasy hand through his unruly hair, leaving behind a shiny black streak of grease. I nervously chewed the inside of my cheek.

Alright Hailey, now get in! he said, looking at me. My feet felt like they were weighed down by bricks.

You sure it’s ready? I asked. The machine sputtered and squealed, releasing another wisp of smoke.

Lou nodded. As ready as it’s going to be! We have to hurry. Without these cases solved, the whole future—our present—may never be the same. Until I can figure out how to bring the detectives back, I need you to go and solve their cases.