Excerpt from SMIFFY BLUE- ACE CRIME DETECTIVE
by Walter Dean Myers
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Micky Molar, the dentist, had just finished with a patient when Smiffy Blue arrived.
"Have you seen anyone with big, thick teeth who looks as if he had just stolen a famous racehorse?" asked Smiffy Blue.
"Well, not anyone with really big teeth," Micky Molar responded. "But yesterday a tall man with a swollen jaw and a bad toothache came in."
"What did he have to say?" asked Smiffy Blue.
"Well," said Micky Molar, "I could hardly understand him. He was holding his jaw and making odd sounds."
"Odd sounds?" asked Smiffy Blue. "What kind of odd sounds?"
"Sounded like 'Ow!' and 'Oochy Ouchy!'" said Micky Molar.
"Ow?" repeated Smiffy Blue. "Oochy Ouchy?"
Smiffy Blue's top lip curled into a smile. It was a shy kind of smile. It was a sly kind of a smile. It was the kind of a smile that Smiffy Blue smiled when he had found a clue.
"Smiffy Blue has found another clue!" Jeremy Joe said.
"The thief must be someone from another country!" said Smiffy Blue. "That is why the dentist could not understand him!"
"True, true, Smiffy Blue," Jeremy Joe said, wondering why he had not thought of that wonderful clue. "True, true."
"Yesterday a large ocean liner came to the dock," said Smiffy Blue. "We must go there at once and see if it brought any people from another country to Doober City."
Off they went to the dock.
From Smiffy Blue- Ace Crime Detective, copyright © by Walter Dean Myers
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