This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition January 2002
First Minstrel edition October 1998
Copyright © 1998 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-671-00754-6
ISBN-10: 0-671-00754-8
eISBN-13: 978-1-439-11310-3
Contents
Chapter 1: A Hot Beginning
Chapter 2: A Clue
Chapter 3: Thief!
Chapter 4: A Clean Getaway
Chapter 5: Suspicious
Chapter 6: Missing!
Chapter 7: A Secret
Chapter 8: A Risky Meeting
Chapter 9: A Bad-Luck Horseshoe
Chapter 10: Caught
Chapter 11: A Surprising Twist
Chapter 12: Puzzling Clues
Chapter 13: An Explanation
Chapter 14: Seeing Double
Chapter 15: Winners
THE MISSING HORSE MYSTERY
1
A Hot Beginning
“Look at that gorgeous horse!” Bess Marvin exclaimed as she looked out the passenger-side window of Nancy Drew’s Mustang.
