Judy Moody, Girl Detective Read online

  “No, silly. Alice Sutherland. She must have lived in this house a way long time ago! She read Nancy Drew, too. How cool is that? Just think: she left this note for us to find someday. It’s like an eighty-year-old mystery.”

  “That’s older than my grandma Lou!”

  Judy stared at the secret code. “It’s a classic reverse alphabet code. You know, where the letter A equals Z?” The girls got a pencil and worked out the code.

  LOOK IN THE RAFTERS.

  Judy and Alyssa searched the attic up and down. “I think I see something blue back here!” Alyssa shouted, reaching up into the rafters. She pulled down a musty, dusty old book. “Nancy Drew book number two. The Hidden Staircase! It’s like the one I got from the library, only way old.”

  Holy macaroni! Judy barely dared to breathe.

  “I bet this is one of the first Nancy Drew books ever. It must be worth a bazillion dollars!” Alyssa cracked open the book. “Look! She wrote something in fancy handwriting.”

  Judy peered over Alyssa’s shoulder, reading the inscription.

  Dear Girl in the Future,

  If you are holding this book, you have solved my Mystery in the Attic Rafters.

  You are just like Nancy Drew!

  A. S.

  “Same-same!” said Judy, grinning at Alyssa.