by“Aunt Dianna,” exclaimed her niece excitedly as she opened the farmhouse door. “I can’t believe a police detective came out here so quickly when all that’s missing are our three bushels of vegetables for the county fair.”
Detective Dianna Diamond stepped into the spacious living room where she’d grown up and said, “Actually, Cassie, I’m here because I promised my sister I’d drive out to the fairgrounds with you all as soon as I got off work.”
“Somebody took my basket of corn,” said Carrie. The oldest of the triplets by eight minutes was waiting in the living room.
“And somebody nabbed my basket of pole beans,” said Callie, the youngest triplet.
“Me, too,” admitted Cassie. “When we went out to the barn after an early supper, my basket of summer squash had also disappeared, and all thr
