The Silver Spoon Mystery [antikvár]

CHAPTER 1 THE HILL Peggy blamed it on the Fathers and Sons Game. Davey said the library shouldn't have left a cellar window open. But Lieutenant Peters thought that the editors of The Hill Weekly had a lot of explaining to do. Whether they were guilty or not, he added. To start at the beginning, you have to go back to the time when the Harveys and the Lippmans, the Perrys and the Mortons moved from the city to live side by side on the Hill. As hills go, it wasn't really much of a hill. Peggy could bike up it now without shifting into low gear. But it was the highest spot in Dwighton, and it had seemed steep and exciting after the level streets of the city. The Hill had one-story houses with picture windows and back-yard barbecues. The Hill was new Dwighton. The rest of Dwighton was old. Big old houses and big old trees with spreading branches that made the sidewalks dark even in the middle of a summer day. All of the fathers on the Hill commuted to the city to work. All of the mothers took turns driving them to the 1