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Amy Fox and the Mystery of the Stolen Necklace (Part 1)
Amy Fox is a 17-year-old girl, who used to live a normal life in Los Angeles. This all changed one day when she realized her mother’s most prized possession, which was her Leibish Fancy Yellow Pear Cushion Diamond Necklace, was missing, and a fake lay in its place. Her mother had searched endlessly for the necklace but to no avail. The original necklace was very valuable and was worth six thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars and had been gifted to her mother by a billionaire. This was because her mother (who was a famous detective) had resolved an issue of sabotage involving his cruise ship line. Amy was aware of her mother’s amazing ability to solve mysteries, but she had never actually been involved in any. One day, her mom came home excited. “Amy, guess what! I have figured out that my necklace was stolen by the well-known thief, Maverick Hunter. Thankfully, his fingerprints are in the system, so I could identify him. Your brother, (Jason Fox), had warned me that the necklace would be stolen. I had no expectations of this being true since I was the only one who knew the combination to my vault in the secret room.” explained Amy’s Mom, (Sophie Fox). “Mother, why do you believe that Maverick Hunter stole your necklace, and how would he have broken into our house?” asked Amy. “I found a note under the cushion that the necklace was on, that said, ‘You have been outsmarted by the most mysterious and best criminal ever…...!’ This note had a fingerprint on it from Maverick Hunter. I still have not been able to figure out how he broke into our house and my vault. Tonight, I plan on finding out!” Amy’s mother exclaimed. “How are you going to find out?” Amy asked her mother. “I put a replica of the 15.06-carat Princess Cut Diamond in the vault. I already got the newspapers to write a section about how I have it in my house until Friday,” said Amy’s mother. (A few days have passed, and it is now Thursday). “I am going to hide in the room just behind where the vault door opens. I would have already set up by that time, a lot of security cameras to watch the hall where the criminal would approach the vault.” Amy’s mother set the trap that night and made Amy sleep in her room with the door locked. The next morning, when Amy woke up, her mother was nowhere to be seen. Amy had secretly followed her mother several times when she had gone to her secret room and into the vault and knew exactly what the password was. She looked, and the fake diamond remained in the vault, but the room showed signs of a struggle. Her father had vanished a year ago, and now her mother was gone, and probably in trouble! First, her brother left two years ago, and now her mother was gone! This was just too much to handle. Amy thought about the cases her mother had described to her like this one and thought about what she should do. Amy went to her mother’s computer to check the surveillance and found that the cameras showed no one going in and no one going out. For Amy to figure this out, she would need the help of her tech-savvy brother, Jason. Jason can hack or fix anything that has to do with technology. Amy started walking towards Jason’s room, but when she neared the room, she heard talking. “Where is the necklace!?” demanded a voice that sounded like an adult man. “I don’t know where my mom hid the necklace! Why on earth would she tell me!” exclaimed Jason. “And if you knew, would you tell me?” asked the man. “I wouldn’t tell you if I knew!” declared Jason. “Fine then, you want to do things the hard way, let’s do them the hard way!” exclaimed the man. Amy stood there peeking through a crack in the door and saw the man pull out a gun. She snuck into the room, since the man had his back to her, and grabbed the gun, causing it to shoot a hole in the roof. Amy aimed the gun at the man and made him stand against the wall as Jason searched him for weapons. “Who are you, and how do you know about...