: A whodunit for children: Someone is after Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude. Can Shenanigan catch the killer? #IndiaNEWS Back in the old tights- and- doublets days of the Swift family, every child had been named

A whodunit for children: Someone is after Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude. Can Shenanigan catch the killer? #IndiaNEWS
Back in the old tights- and- doublets days of the Swift family, every child had been named either Mary or John. It got terribly confusing at dinner time when someone asked a John to pass the potatoes and ten hands shot out at once, and so Mary Swift XXXV had begun the tradition of naming her children using the Family Dictionary. The idea stuck, and the Swifts prospered.People often overlook a Mary or a John, but they seldom forget a person named Meretricious or Flinch. Shenanigan couldn’t remember the day she was born, but she could picture it very well: the hospital room, the nurses, her mother, tired and smiling as Shenanigan’s father fussed over her pillows. She pictured herself too, wrapped up like a little peanut with a shock of disobedient hair already erupting out of her head.She pictured the Dictionary – and this part was easier, because she was looking at it – an ancient, leather-bound monster of a book, bursting its bindings with pages of calfskin and parchment and paper, with entries in crisp modern fonts, wonky typewritten letters, and hand- scrawled script with long P?&?]???YZ?H??&?HX?[??H??[]?H?Y[????Y?[??]?K????XY[?H

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