Mystery in Los Piñones

Music blared from the speakers, as if the noise could disguise the situation.
Diego said:
—We should investigate on our own.
—Do you really think something happened to her? — asked Antonia, who was approaching with Camila at that moment. Everyone is guessing, and it seems that Felipe is organising brigades to go and look for her.
—Of course —added Diego—. Felipe is right; no woman does this to herself. She entered the contest, made clothes, bought shoes, rehearsed hairstyles and maybe how many things we don’t even suspect a beauty queen can do in front of the mirror. Something must have happened to her. And that something prevents her from saying what it was.

Diego is invited by his cousin’s family to spend the holidays in Los Piñones, a small village where they have a house for recreation and that only gets a little bit livelier with the arrival of summer. But all the calm of the place will be disturbed by the mysterious disappearance of the queen of the fair on the very day of her coronation.

Key points

• Through believable and agile dialogues, children will use logical and deductive thinking to develop the hypotheses that will lead them to unveil each mystery.

Beatriz García-Huidobro

1997 – Finalist in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award, FIL Guadalajara