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CHAPTER FIVE

FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS, things at school kept me away from my shed and my Thinking Chair. Our class had to prepare a set of science demonstrations for Parents’ Evening, and I and my other best friend, Muddy Whitehouse, got stuck with doing stuff about levers and pulleys. He’s brilliant at that sort of thing, but I can’t tell a fulcrum from a plate of spaghetti!

It was Wednesday before I could properly get back on the trail of the leaking info. Luckily, I’d been able to get some thinking done, and I’d reached some possible conclusions. These possible conclusions now needed to be backed up with some solid facts.

I emailed Izzy again. I asked her to come up with some general research on the electronics industry – newspaper clippings, background info on Microspek and PosiSpark, things like that. Anything that might have a bearing on the case. She’s much better at doing that sort of thing than I am. She’s very thorough – I skip stuff.

In the meantime, I returned to Jasmine’s house after school. There were some more questions I needed to ask. More to the point, I needed to slim down my list of suspects. And quickly!

What was really confusing me in this case was that motive (why the crime happened), opportunity (when the crime happened) and method (how the crime happened) all seemed to be at odds with each other. As I walked over to Jasmine’s house, flipping back and forth through my notebook, I began to realise that this mystery would not be solved without some fresh evidence turning up. You see there were a couple of BUTs here.