The Snake Mistake Mystery: The Great Mistake Mysteries [Paperback]

Noble Dog Walking takes care of pets, even if they slither.

When a ball python theyre looking after disappears, Stephen Noble and Ren?e Kobai join forces with their favourite clients, Jack Russell Ping and greyhound Pong, to find that snake. The local animal shelter proves no help at all. The only thing they care about is their annual cat sale.

Its starting to look like the ball python may have been stolen, when Stephen and Ren?e get word that more homes have been broken into, all of them clients of Noble Dog Walking. The case turns desperate as one by one, their clients leave. After losing Ping and Pong as clients, too, Stephen and Ren?e pin their last hope on gathering all the suspects at the animal shelter, and a real Cat-astrophe ensues.Day One, Mistake One

The air feels too warm and heavy for October. Thedogs dont even want to walk this morning. Its likethey know something.
Whats wrong with them, Stephen? my friendRen?e Kobai asks as she drags Ping out the door. Hesthe small Jack Russell the Bennetts adopted from thepound, and usually, he sproings out of the house.
Who cares. Theyre coming, anyway.
The Bennetts pay Noble Dog Walking, my dadsservice, to exercise the dogs for two hours mostweekdays. Ren?e and I work for Dad; we even wearuniforms with the Noble paw print logo. Usually,we take the dogs out for an hour before school andanother one after, but today is Saturday. First of athree-day weekend. PA day Monday, yay! Fourbonus walks this weekend, morning and afternoonSaturday and Sunday, which means bonus money.
I pull Pong, the Bennetts long-legged rescuegreyhound, out the door. He usually lopes, moreoften leading us all. But today Pong picks his waythrough the dry, brown grass, almost tippy-toe.
Ping, the bouncy Jack Russell, digs in with all hisstrength, mini donkeystyle, the whites of his blackeyes showing in slivers.
Move it, Ping. I mean it! Ren?es short, likePing, and his match lƒ#