Answer Key

MYSTERY WRITER CHALLENGE:

Setting the Scene

  1. The beach

  2. An amusement park. The screams were from a roller coaster!

MYSTERY WRITER CHALLENGE:

Making Up a Mystery

12 mysterious bananas

MYSTERY WRITER CHALLENGE:

The Right Clues for You

  1. A clown

  2. A dentist (the minty string was dental floss)

  3. A super strong robot with wheels instead of legs (the note was written in “binary,” a language used by computers with ones and zeros instead of letters of the alphabet)

MYSTERY WRITER CHALLENGE:

Where Will the Clues Lead?

  1. A pizza restaurant

  2. Somewhere with lots of dogs. A dog pound, dog kennel, dog park, or doggy day care. The detective will just have to see which of those might be nearby.

MYSTERY WRITER CHALLENGE:

Catching the Witness in a Lie

  1. In the middle of the night with no power, no moon, no stars or flashlight to see by, how did this person see a clown through a window 100 feet away? Even if they somehow saw the clown, how in the world would they be able to see dark blue beanbags?

  2. There was no Internet in 1979.