Spoiler!!!!!
Stop reading if you are reading or want to read "Down the Rabbit Hole".
I mean it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you didn't know already from reading the spoiler which you should have read, I am in the middle of reading "Down the Rabbit Hole". It is about a thirteen year old girl named Ingrid. She loves Sherlock Holmes and she always tries to think like him making her very observant. Ingrid has an older brother named Ty and two parents who always push her to do better in math and soccer. One day while walking to soccer practice she gets lost and ends up meeting Katharine Covak or as most people call her Cracked up Katie. Ingrid waits in her house while Kate calls her a Taxi but she accidentally leaves her cleats in the house. She never told her mom about any of this. Later, she finds out that Katie was murdered. Ingrid is missing her cleats and decides one night to sneak into her house and take the cleats back. She finds them upstairs but another person comes into the house. She runs under a bed and listens while the person comes upstairs. He passes the bed and takes a playbill for "Dial M for Murder". Ingrid notices that the person is wearing green splattered Adidas shoes. She gets out of the house and runs home really fast. A police officer chases her into the wood, but she gets away. She gets home safe and sound. The next day, the paper tells of two men who the police think committed the crime. For some reason, Ingrid doesn't think they were the culprits. Then and there she decides that she will solve the mystery, and get the right people in jail.
Around that same time, Jill, the directer at Presscott Players, announces that the show will be Alice in Wonderland. Ingrid wants to be Alice. Soon the auditions come and Ingrid sees Cloe Ferrand, a beautiful girl who's dad ,who is a millionaire, employs Ingrid's dad, is trying out and has her heart set on the part of Alice as well. Ingrid scores the part and Cloe is mad. Anyway, at auditions, Ingrid meets Vincent Dunn who is and adult who gets the part of the mad-hatter. He ends up driving her home, but Ingrid tells him that she live in the house that the people convicted of the crime live. He drives her there and she brakes into there house. She has to know if they have a pair of green splattered shoes. She finds none, and takes them off of the suspect list.
I'm just now realizing that blogging about a mystery in two blogs will be hard. There are so many little clues I have to explain, and Ingrid doesn't process the clues about the real murderer until the end. I didn't want to give away the ending of this book in my part 1 blog but I think I will have to. The murderer ends up being. Drum role please : Vincent Dunn. When I write the little summaries I will only explain the clues that lead to Vincent being the murderer. So, lets go back to the first clue. When Vincent drives Ingrid home they talk about Vincents acting career. He lists plays he was in, and after a while says "Di-," and then quickly changed the subject. I realized that he was about to say "dial M for Murder," but Ingrid didn't. Also the narrator never talks about what shoes Vincent is wearing even when he is describing his appearance. Clue number two: Vincent asks to stay in the theater overnight and needs a key. This may not seem like much of a clue now, but later on in the story it plays a big part, even though his request for a key is denied. Clue number 3: Ingrid researches the characters from Dial M for Murder and finds a review of a man named David Vardack. David Vardack, Vincent Dunn, see the resemblance? These are all of the clues that I will tell you now. Read the next blog for other clues and how they all fit together.
The beginning of "Down the Rabbit Hole is one of my favorite parts. It is one of the only books I have read where it starts interesting. It is so much fun to read and very suspenseful. My favorite parts always happen when Ingrid is alone at night, like when she snuck into Kate's house. I really wanted to know what would happen. The one thing I didn't like about this book is how obvious the murderer is. I knew it was Vincent the moment he came into the story. Also, he was a very stupid murderer. If I was going to go undercover and change my name I would make it something interesting. I wouldn't just make up a name with my initials switched! I like mysteries better when you think you know the answer and then at the end there is a big explanation about how the murderer is some random person and about how the detective found the answer. The first half of Down the Rabbit Hole is great and I can't wait to read the sequel.
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