The Stolen Boat
This is the mystery of the stolen boat. The owner of the boat, Janice Markvluwer, noticed it was stolen when she came up to her cottage. Her cottage is on Hamlin lake, In Ludington.It connects to Lake Michigan. The boat is a blue pontoon boat. The boat is very old, over thirty years. She has left it there all the rest of the summers, and nobody had ever stolen it before. The Rotmans, her neighbors to the right , had just built a new cottage, and had come up the day before. They say the boat was gone when they got there.They thought that she was getting it fixed, since it doesn’t run very well, and has a very small motor.It only has a 30 horse power motor. There are four other cottages to the left, and everyone else was there, except for the people who own the cottage directly next to her on the left, they had just sold it, and live in Chicago and barely ever came up anyways. She hadn’t met the new owners yet, but they sounded nice when she talked to them on the phone, when they wanted to hear about the lake. They asked a bunch of questions, like anyone who would buy a new cottage.
Behind our cottage is a hill, and on top of the hill are more cottages. There is an old grumpy man who lives on the top, in one of the cottages. The old grumpy man was there three days before it happened, but had left two days before Janice got there. Janice’s neighbors, who have been the same since she bought the cottage, would never steal the boat, well the people in the cottage to the left might. They probably wouldn’t, because they live in California, and said they wouldn’t be coming up for another two months. They people to the left have a boat, it has bullet holes in the bottom, from the man who owned the boat and tried shooting raccoons who were living in the boat at the time. They haven’t been able to use the boat in many many years. The people who bought the cottage go the boat as well. They would have done it because they would want a new boat. But Jan thought that they wouldn’t have stolen it because they had never been to michigan before.
The old guy who lives behind Janice is always tell her to stop burning her plastic, and has been rude to her since he moved in. The new owners of the cottage sounded very suspicious when they called. Janice remembered that they asked if she had a boat. They sounded very interested in it. Then there is the her grandson Drew Funckes, who has wanted her boat since he was four. He always tries to take it for rides when he goes up there.
She contacted the new owners, and they said that they hadn’t been to their cottage yet. So it couldn’t be them. All of her other neighbors would never do that, they are very loyal to her. She decided to contact the old grumpy guy. He never answered his phone, so she called up her son in law, Gary Lawrencen , and he drove up to the old man’s cottage. Sitting in his old, broken down garage was Jan’s old pontoon boat. The old grumpy man went to jail, and his cottage was taken a