Malibu Mayhem Trilogy 02: Mystery At Malachite Mansion
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Authors: Carolyn Keene
Don’t Walk This Way
“Wait,” Bess called out excitedly. “Don’t forget your shoes.”
Bess hurried over to the shoes near the clothing rack, and as she carried them to Miss Zaza, I noticed two wet footprints on the floor—wet spots left by the shoes!
I started to panic as I did the math: Wet shoes … plus electric costume … equals disaster!
“Stop—Zaza, stop!” I shouted. “Don’t dare step into those shoes!”
#1 Without a Trace
#2 A Race Against Time
#3 False Notes
#4 High Risk
#5 Lights, Camera …
#6 Action!
#7 The Stolen Relic
#8 The Scarlet Macaw Scandal
#9 Secret of the Spa
#10 Uncivil Acts
#11 Riverboat Ruse
#12 Stop the Clock
#13 Trade Wind Danger
#14 Bad Times, Big Crimes
#15 Framed
#16 Dangerous Plays
#17 En Garde
#18 Pit of Vipers
#19 The Orchid Thief
#20 Getting Burned
#21 Close Encounters
#22 Dressed to Steal
#23 Troubled Waters
#24 Murder on the Set
#25 Trails of Treachery
#26 Fishing for Clues
#27 Intruder
#28 Mardi Gras Masquerade
#29 The Stolen Bones
#30 Pageant Perfect Crime
#31 Perfect Cover
#32 Perfect Escape
#33 Secret Identity
#34 Identity Theft
#35 Identity Revealed
#36 Model Crime
#37 Model Menace
#38 Model Suspect
#39 Green-Eyed Monster
#40 Green with Envy
#41 Seeing Green
#42 Secret Sabotage
#43 Serial Sabotage
#44 Sabotage Surrender
#45 California Schemin’
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M
y beach!” Stacey Manning cried. “My beautiful white sandy beach!”
Bess, George, and I didn’t know what to say.
We wished we could console Stacey as she watched clumps of oil wash up on her private beach, but we felt just as badly as she did.
It was “the morning after.” Just yesterday afternoon, a luxurious yacht had exploded off the coast, sending gallons of oil spilling onto the shores of Malibu’s rich and trendy Malachite Beach. Stacey, a celebrity event planner, had just returned from Las Vegas to check
out the damage. The blackened sands and oil-slicked dune grass wasn’t much of a welcome, to say the least.
“No matter how I try, I can’t understand it,” Stacey said. “How can one burning yacht create such a major spill?” She held her nose to block out the acrid smell in the air.
“The yacht was carrying drums of diesel oil,” I explained. “When Bess and I were on the cruise, we found the drums underneath a tarp. Add the oil to the yacht’s own tank and
kaboom!
”
“You mean the
cult
cruise,” Bess said with a frown.
“Cult cruise” was right. I still couldn’t believe Bess and I had gone undercover to investigate a brainwashing cult being run right next door to Stacey’s beach house. Our vacation in Malachite had started out so perfectly. Stacey had invited the three of us—me and my best friends Bess Marvin and George Fayne—to spend a few weeks at her house while she worked an event in Las Vegas. Stacey had once worked with George’s mom, but Mrs. Fayne had lost touch with her over the years, until Stacey called out of the blue with her awesome invite to California.
At first we thought the beachfront mansion at the secluded end of the beach was some kind of trendy spa, but we soon found out the truth: Roland’s Renewal Retreat and Spa was a front for a brainwashing, money-stealing cult.