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First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet

By Josh Pachter
First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet by Josh Pachter digital book - Fable

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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....



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About Josh Pachter

Josh Pachter's short crime stories have been appearing in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and many other places since the late 1960s. He has edited more than a dozen anthologies, including Anthony Award finalists The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell (Untreed Reads) and Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon (Down and Out Books), and EQMM's "Passport to Crime" department regularly features his translations of stories by Dutch and Flemish authors. His first novel, Dutch Threat, was published by Genius Books in 2023 and nominated for the Agatha, Lefty, and Macavity awards. First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet is his first book for younger readers. In 2020, the Short Mystery Fiction Society selected him to receive its Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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