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PROLOGUE

A week before the January thaw finally arrived in February, I found myself hanging like a bat from a rafter inside a church steeple, face-to-face with a bell made by Paul Revere.

If you’d have told me a month ago that I’d find myself in this position, I would have said you were crazy.

But then, a month ago my life was completely different. A month ago, my career as a middle-school private eye hadn’t begun.

And by the way, it didn’t begin inside a steeple. Absolutely truly not.

It began the day my report card made it home before I did.