nothingtolose18
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Post by nothingtolose18 on Apr 6, 2008 13:48:20 GMT -5
My mom said that one time she was with her sister and her sister's husband, and mom walked right over a puddle and then my uncle was right behind her and he stopped and picked up a 20 dollar bill in the puddle Mom was mad that she hadn't seen it first, lol
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sarish
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Post by sarish on Apr 13, 2008 10:48:20 GMT -5
^haha! That's funny.
I really liked this mystery, although I thought it was weird that Claudia's parents made her a darkroom for a summer activity! This is one of the few mysteries I own, and I like mysteries BSC style!
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supprazz
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Post by supprazz on Sept 26, 2008 10:59:06 GMT -5
this was one of my favourite mysteries ever, I love the way it was written and thought the part with the pennies was hilarious
but realistically, why were they allowed to take pictures inside a bank? If I was working there, I would be suspicious of them and tell them to leave.
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 26, 2008 21:50:18 GMT -5
^They weren't taking pictures inside, only outside of the building.
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Post by toshemeup on Nov 10, 2008 6:24:33 GMT -5
Just finished reading this one and I really liked it for the most part.
I agree that the ending was implausible. Couldn't the watch be a family heirloom that just stopped working and he carried for sentimental reasons? Just because it doesn't work, that means he's guilty? And he confessed so quickly, too! No police officer would allow teenage girls into the interrogation room like that. It was a good story up until then.
Honestly, I thought the lady with the baby carriage would still be involved, she was meeting him and putting money into the carriage. I thought I was so smart...
I wondered too about how expensive a hobby this was, especially when she was blowing up all the pictures. That seems very wasteful.
But my biggest gripe is this: what kind of family are they that people just open a closed bathroom door without knocking first! Claudia shouldn't need a sign. A closed bathroom door means do not enter! You knock and wait to make sure there's nobody inside. They must be walking in on each other all the time!
Otherwise, Claudia didn't annoy me as much as she normally does. I wish I could have seen the pictures as well.
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Post by toshemeup on Nov 11, 2008 20:23:37 GMT -5
It was the banker, the guy in the suit. He had hidden the money in a safe deposit box and had the key inside the broken watch. Claudia, in looking at the blown up photos, noticed that the watch didn't keep time. They all went storming down to the police station, told the sergeant, who let them into the interrogation room while he confronted the banker with the evidence. The banker confessed and all was right in Stonybrook again.
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fluffycakes
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Post by fluffycakes on Nov 11, 2008 20:58:48 GMT -5
But my biggest gripe is this: what kind of family are they that people just open a closed bathroom door without knocking first! Claudia shouldn't need a sign. A closed bathroom door means do not enter! You knock and wait to make sure there's nobody inside. They must be walking in on each other all the time! In my best friend's family, you leave every door shut, always. They leave their bathroom and bedroom doors closed all the time, even when they're not using them. I always get paranoid when I'm at her house that someone will barge in on me while I'm in the bathroom. So I guess it's not entirely impossible that Janine would walk into the bathroom like that, but she should've knocked! Anyway, I really want to read this book again. It's one of my favourite mysteries. I love the chapter two description, the great penny-smashing incident at the bank (which still makes me laugh out loud) and I love the part with Claudia and Stacey singing Billy Blue songs at the BSC meeting. It's just so cute and best friend-y of them to lip synch the songs to each other when Kristy tells them to can it. (At least I think this happens in the book - it might've happened in another book, I can't quite remember. Whichever book it appears in, I love that scene!) I also love how the girls jump to the wrong conclusion so many times. I don't know why that didn't happen more in the mysteries. I liked seeing how they weren't perfect Nancy Drews all the time. And I loved that Janine kept correcting them and telling them how off-base they were. Go Janine!
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 11, 2008 21:21:15 GMT -5
^The photo was blown up. Big. She could see a lot of details that way.
Yep, that's in this book -- I love it too! I also liked Janine's precise explanations/reasonings.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2008 0:31:46 GMT -5
Making your own dark room isn't that expensive, in fact it's cheaper than getting it done professionally. If I weren't so lazy, I'd do it myself. Though, the darkrooms at my university have a rule where you need to have someone with you when you're in there and a plethora of safety equipment. I doubt she had that in her bathroom, si 'm surprised her parents were so willing to just let her do it randomly in the bathroom.
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Post by greer on Nov 13, 2008 8:40:40 GMT -5
My high school didn't have such rules. I randomly hung out in the darkroom with friends on several occasions.
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Post by booboobrewer on Feb 12, 2009 3:14:29 GMT -5
Does anyone find it a bit creepy that Janine didn't tell Claudia she opened the darkroom door the second time? All Claudia saw was a dark figure in the doorway, and she checked the whole house only to find no one there and everything locked. She was paranoid that Mr. Zibreski was following her. Janine said that she thought Claudia thought it was him--yet she still waited awhile before telling her! She was embarrassed about opening the door, but seriously, I wouldn't want my younger sister thinking someone was stalking her. She should have confessed sooner.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Feb 12, 2009 11:30:00 GMT -5
^ I don't remember that; it's been awhile since I've read this one. I agree with you, though. If I had been in Janine's shoes, I would have said something right away, embarrassed or not.
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 30, 2009 15:15:15 GMT -5
I just re-read this one last night and also wished we could have seen the kid's pictures--and some of Vanessa's captions. I think the Stoneybrook Police need their collective heads examined to have ever so casually allowed the BSC inside the interrogation room, where they admittedly where interviewing (again) a suspect! I never really thought about this before, but I always liked Sgt. Johnson. As I said in the SPD thread, I sort of imagined him as possibly being a father figure to Kristy, though this was never stated in a book. My point, is for someone who grew to care about the BSC and respect them, as other posters on here have said what was (or wasn't) he thinking?! On a humorous note, on page 36 it says that Mary Anne borrowed her DAD's Brownie camera! Lol, Richard as a Brownie!
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Post by greer on Mar 31, 2009 6:44:36 GMT -5
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Post by zoar3 on Mar 31, 2009 18:51:26 GMT -5
Thanks, Greer for the link. I never had heard of such a camera.
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