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banging on the cottage door and the bag was just sitting there, all alone in the sunshine. A good detective does not waste an opportunity like that; I shot out from behind the fence and hurtled over to the bike. Unfortunately I forgot I was wearing my skates. It is not a good idea to grab onto a bicycle when your feet already have eight wheels underneath them—in my opinion it just adds extra wheels to the problem. But that is what I did. Nurse Watkins’sbike fell on top of me—and so did the contents of the bag.
    Yuck.
    You do not want to know what was in that bag.

4
FROG VAN
    â€œW ell, I never thought Dad’s frogs were in the bag anyway,” Wanda said the next morning.
    â€œYou did .”
    â€œNo I didn’t. It was a stupid idea.”
    Wanda and I were getting ready to go to the beach. It was a really sunny day and usually I would have been excited because I like the sea now. I never used to go to the beachwhen I lived with just Aunt Tabby and Uncle Drac. Aunt Tabby thought the sea was dangerous and Uncle Drac does not really like daylight, and he especially does not like being out in the sun.
    But just then I did not want to go to the beach, as I was in a bad mood. I was in a bad mood because:
Yesterday, after her bicycle ambushed me, Nurse Watkins marched us back to Spookie House. She found Uncle Drac knitting in the hedge and made him walk up and down the path twenty times.
Which annoyed Uncle Drac.
When Barry asked how come we had broken Nurse Watkins’s bicycle, Wanda had told him that I had been looking in Nurse Watkins’s bag for his frogs.
Which annoyed Barry.
And Brenda.
And Aunt Tabby.
And me. Because it was not true, as I never got the chance. In fact I had been savagely attacked by Nurse Watkins’s bag.
    It was just not fair .
    But no one cares what I think, so we were going to the beach whether I wanted to or not. Ever since Brenda told Aunt Tabby about lifeboats and rescue helicopters, Aunt Tabby has changed her mind about the sea being dangerous and now she really likes it. In fact, I think she secretly wants to be rescued by a helicopter. Actually, I wouldn’t mind being rescued by a helicopter either. But not at the same time as Aunt Tabby.
    â€œYou will enjoy it when we get there,Araminta,” said Aunt Tabby. Huh. Aunt Tabby always acts like she knows the future, but she doesn’t.
    â€œHow can you know that I will enjoy it?” I asked. “I might get eaten by a shark. I wouldn’t enjoy that .”
    Aunt Tabby raised her eyes up like she was looking for something in her eyebrows and sighed. “I don’t suppose the shark would either,” she replied. Which I did not think was very nice.
    I had been thinking about what Nurse Watkins had said to the little old lady and I realized I had another clue. I was hoping that if I was grumpy enough everyone else would go to the beach and leave me behind because I had a plan—I wanted to sneak off to the mushroom farm.
    But it was no good, we were all going to the beach in Barry’s van.
    Except for Uncle Drac, of course.
    And Barry, as he was still looking for his frogs. I told Barry that we were still looking for them too, and he said it was probably better that we didn’t look anymore, all things considered. But what Barry did not understand was that a good detective never gives up. In fact, from what I have seen, the more people tell them to give up, the more determined they are to continue. As soon as the detective’s boss tells her that she is being taken off the case, you know that’s it—she will go right on and solve it.
    But if I couldn’t go to the mushroom farm, I knew someone who could. So while Brenda, Aunt Tabby, and Wanda were making the picnicand finding the beach towels, I went to find Sir Horace.
    Sir Horace is one of the ghosts in Spookie House. The other ghost is a weedy boy called Edmund who likes Wanda very much, but he would be no good at