Three of Diamonds

Three of Diamonds is a wonderful book about a boy named Nick, and his brother Tim Diamond. Nick lives with Tim, his older brother, who is a private detective, because his parents immigrated to Australia. Tim's real name is Hughes Simple, but he changed his name to Tim Diamond, so Nick is now Nick Diamond.Three of Diamonds tells three of Tim and Nick's adventures with figuring out mysteries, murders, and faked deaths. Tim is not a very good detective, and doesn't understand anything. Nick, on the other hand, is really good at figuring out things, and he helps Tim with his detective cases.

In the first case, called "The Blurred Man." It is about a man, Lenny Smile, who owns a corporation called Dream Time. The company gets millions from a man named Joe Carter who donates them. He and Lenny had been pen pals, and Joe wanted to meet Lenny. He flies to England, where Tim and Nick live, and finds out, a few days before he is supposed to meet Lenny, that Lenny has been killed. He enlists Tim to find out how Lenny died, and if it really was an accident.

The second one in the book is called "The French Confection." It all starts when Tim opens a Bestle' yogurt, and finds out that Nick and Tim have won a few days trip to Paris! On the train, Tim and Nick sit across from an older woman named Erica Nice, who owns a bakery, and a Texan named Jed Mathis, who owns an oil company. Tim tells Erica Nice that he is on a case for the Interpol, the International Police. Tim and Nick get caught up into a frenzy of adventures, some not so fun.

The third and last story is called "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday." It all starts when an old friend form high school, Rory McDougal, invites Tim to a high school reunion. Tim and Nick get on a train, and Tim meets up with all of his old "buddies" from high school. There was only one person from the high school not there, and no one had any idea where he was. The "reunion" was on Crocodile Island, and that's where the boat that they had been told was going to take them to the island took them. When they got there, there was no one to greet them, so they barged on in to the castle house. When they got there, they saw that Rory McDougal had been murdered, and they didn't know why. Could it be one of them? You'll have to read Three of Diamonds to find the rest out.