Book cover for First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet: A June Knight Mystery by Josh Pachter

First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet

A June Knight Mystery

2024 Released
168 Pages
3-4 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Hardback Unavailable
Level ElevateISBN 9781685127411

When June Knight, fourteen years old and the TV spokeskid for Yummy Nibbles, "the dog food dogs love more than people love people food," decides that she wants to break into the movies, her agent Morty comes up with a scheme to get her some national publicity: June pretends to sue her parents for emancipation and moves into the attic of a nearby boarding house, where neighborhood vandals have altered the "ROOM TO LET" sign out front to read "ROOMY TOILET."  

 

When things begin mysteriously disappearing from the other tenants' rooms, newcomer June is the obvious suspect, and to prove her innocence, she decides to take on the most important role of her career and play sleuth. Each of the Roomy Toilet's wacky residents turns out to have secrets to conceal, and the book builds to a conclusion filled with multiple surprises and happy endings for everyone-well, almost everyone....



Josh Pachter

JOSH PACHTER is an author, editor, and translator. More than 140 of his short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, and elsewhere, and he wrote the traditional whodunit Dutch Threat and the mystery for younger readers First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet. He’s edited anthologies inspired by the songs of Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Buffett, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Stephen Sondheim, Lyle Lovett, the Beatles, and by the films of the Marx Brothers. His work has won two Derringer Awards and been a finalist for the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Thriller, Macavity, Lefty, and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Reader Awards. He was the 2020 recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement. joshpachter.com

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