Sewell Library in Bowdon, GA

Sherlock Holmes Rides the Range

by the Bowdon Readers

In 1811, in a small town in Canada, there was a girl named McKenzie, and she LOVED ghost stories. She loved to hear them, she loved to tell them, and she loved to make them up. But most of all, she loved to read them. Her favorite book of ghost stories was Scary Stories to Tell After Dark by Alvin Schwartz.

Everyone in town knew of her love for scary ghosts stories, even the bad guys in town. John Wilkes Boothe (a rascal and an evildoer, even when he was young) broke into McKenzie's house and took her favorite book, just to be mean. He wasn't even going to read it!

Next door to McKenzie's house was a little bed and breakfast where the famous cowboy detective Sherlock Holmes was spending a few days on vacation. Like most small towns, everyone knows everything that happens in town, and it wasn't long before Sherlock was on the case. (He later moved to England and got a job with Scotland Yard.)

Sherlock followed the clues and discovered that mean old Boothe had taken the book, but Boothe would not tell anyone where he hid it. He went to jail and did not get out until early 1865.

McKenzie was quite sad about her lost book until she went to a friends of the library sale and found More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by the same author! She now had a new favorite book and she lived happily (and a little scarily) ever after.

The end.

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