Robbery At The Ashbury Museum

Josie Hart thought she was on vacation where the sun, sand and surf at the Jersey shore couldnt be better. But the robbery of the Egyptian crown jewels from the Ashbury Museum turned her vacation upside down. The teen sleuth was too far away from her hometown to help her mentor father, Captain Charles Hart, investigate the crime. With international implications, a gag order was issued. Facts were scarce until a local reporter who beat the police to the scene of the crime broke the news with a large front-page photo of the inside of the museum and the broken jewel case. Thats all that Josie needed. With only a few odd clues from the newspaper and what she wrangled out of her father, the teen sleuth deduces that the perpetrators live closer to the shore where she was vacationing than the scene of the crime back in Ashbury. Further clues and facts surface as the investigation proceeds. A toy copy of the bracelet with the perpetrators initials found at the scene of the crime shows up in a penny arcade. The hunt to find the jeweler who copied the toy to make the real silver bracelet creates some hot leads and a possible suspect. Then things really get hot for Josie and her friend Becky when Beckys shore house is ransacked. It is a major event that tells Josie she is on the right trail, but there are still too many loose ends, or so it seems. Then, an evening at the circus leads Josie to a critical clue that ties everything together, revealing not only who did it, but how the crime was done.