Robbery at the Ashbury Museum

About the Book

Josie Hart thought she was on vacation where the sun, sand and surf at the Jersey shore couldn’t be better. But the robbery of the Egyptian crown jewels from the Ashbury Museum turned her vacation upside down. The teen sleuth was too far away from her hometown to help her mentor father, Captain Charles Hart, investigate the crime. With international implications, a gag order was issued. Facts were scarce until a local reporter who beat the police to the scene of the crime broke the news with a large front-page photo of the inside of the museum and the broken jewel case. That’s all that Josie needed. With only a few odd clues from the newspaper and what she wrangled out of her father, the teen sleuth deduces that the perpetrators live closer to the shore where she was vacationing than the scene of the crime back in Ashbury. Further clues and facts surface as the investigation proceeds. A toy copy of the bracelet with the perpetrator’s initials found at the scene of the crime shows up in a penny arcade. The hunt to find the jeweler who copied the toy to make the real silver bracelet creates some hot leads and a possible suspect. Then things really get hot for Josie and her friend Becky when Becky’s shore house is ransacked. It is a major event that tells Josie she is on the right trail, but there are still too many loose ends, or so it seems. Then, an evening at the circus leads Josie to a critical clue that ties everything together, revealing not only who did it, but how the crime was done.

About the Author

Joseph Yeamans was born and raised in New Jersey. He credits his early years in Scouting for stirring his imagination for ghost stories and tales of the unusual, which prompted this second book. He received his BA and MA in education from William Paterson University and a law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He is currently working on his third book. He lives in New Jersey with his wife Karen and daughter Karla.