Margaret Fox Missing

• Georgia Taylor, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2016

I was sitting in the office playing with my pens when Millie put a file on my desk, “New case, check it out,” ordered Millie. I opened the file and Millie walked away, a picture of a girl with long hair and dark blue dress lay at the top of the file. At the bottom of the photo, it said ‘MISSING’. “A missing person’s case,” I mumbled to myself. “Margaret Fox,” said a familiar voice. “Hello Miss Cast,” I replied. “I want you on this case straight away, no time for dilly dallying, off you go!” said Miss Cast in a stern voice.
I was given a map made in the 1600 hundreds because this place has lay undiscovered for years, but as a Secret Agent anything is possible. I drove four hours east until I reached the small town of Multah. The little town had a set of shops, there were house and a huge abandoned theme park. “How come I take all the lame cases?”
I went and checked into my hotel, it was a dull grey building with no interesting features. I walked through the door and a man came rushing over to me. “I’ll take your bags miss...?” he asked. “Fox, Margaret Fox,” I said. The man had black hair with brown eyes, he seemed nice. “My name is Mitch,” said Mitch. Mitch lead me to my room, he dropped my bag by a four poster and said goodbye.
I decided to walk to the missing person’s house. I knocked on the door, two ladies opened it they said nothing. They took me up to the girl’s room. “What is the lady’s name that I’m looking for?” I asked, “It wasn’t in my file.” “Clare Drin, here’s her room, help yourself,” one lady said. The room had a bed in the corner, a bookcase and a desk with a blank piece of blank paper underneath a lamp. The paper had a yellowy tinge. I turned the lamp on and pointed it towards the paper, after a few minutes a message appeared, it said ‘spooky coaster’, Clare had used invisible ink! I ran down the stairs to the two ladies. “Is there something called the spooky coaster?” I asked. “Yes, it used to be a ride at the theme park.” “Thank you,” I replied and walked out of the room, but I heard something that made me suspect, “She’ll never find Clare, we hid her too well!” said one maid. Suspicious!
I found the amusement park and a switch that turned the whole place on! I found the spooky coaster, I got into a cart. It went into a room of spiders, then into another with icicles dangling off the ceiling. I jumped off the cart then I saw someone tied to an icicle, she had blonde hair and was wearing a jumper and jeans. I got out my pocket knife and untied her. “Are you Clare Drin?” I asked. “Yes my two maids took me here.” “The police are on their way,” I said. The maids were arrested but escaped prison a few days later...