13 Hangmen

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ISBN: 978-1-4197-0159-7

Text copyright © 2012 Art Corriveau
Book design by Maria T. Middleton

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Prologue

Special Delivery

PART ONE:
THE MURDER

1
Lucky No. 13

2
Surprises

Angelo

* How Angelo Saved Ted Williams's Red Sox Career

3
Under Investigation

PART TWO:
THE MYSTERY

4
The Anomaly

5
Something Fishy

Solly

* How Solly Saved 13 Hangmen Court with a Ring

6
Unnatural Causes

7
A Big Misunderstanding

8
Tweaking History

Finn

* How Finn Helped Honey Fitzgerald Get Reelected as Mayor

9
Condemned by a Hangman

PART THREE:
THE TREASURE

10
An Unexpected Ally

Jack

* How Jack Saved William Lloyd Garrison's Life

11
A Riddle

Tobias

* How Tobias Rescued Paul Revere's Treasure from the Clutches of a Traitor

12
Stars and Stripes Forever

13
Condemning a Hangman

Epilogue

The End?

What's Story, What's History

ony DiMarco kicked his sneakers off at the backdoor mat, as usual. He flung his book bag onto the kitchen table, as usual. But he didn't raid the fridge for a slice of leftover cake as usual. It wasn't an as-usual kind of day. It was Tony's last day of seventh grade at Ann Arbor Middle School—thank God—which also made it the first day of summer vacation and, therefore, the first official day of his diet. Tony's thirteenth birthday was now only three weeks away. He had totally promised himself he would begin life as a teenager twenty-five pounds lighter. The plan was to grab an orange from the fruit bowl on the counter instead.

So why was he laying his forehead against the fridge door
and
picturing
that leftover cake—devil's food smothered in chocolate frosting—tucked behind a Tupperware of spaghetti on the second shelf, left-hand side?

Because he had just suffered through a grueling two-hour final assembly at school, one that had turned out to be a love-fest for his graduating twin brothers. Not only had Mikey and Angey cocaptained the baseball team to first place—Mikey as starting pitcher, Angey as catcher—but Mikey had also been voted Class Clown, while Angey had gotten the School Spirit award. And that hadn't even been the worst. The
worst
had been when the principal had stood up and named the evil twins co-valedictorians of their eighth-grade class. Tony would never hear the end of it at dinner tonight. Who could blame him for wanting a little chocolate pick-me-up now?