The Lost Exam

Note: This is a revised version of a previously available story with the same title. If you’ve read the earlier edition, the core mystery remains the same.

PREQUEL NOVELLA

The 1920s were more rumble than roar in small-town America, but that changes in Doro Banyon’s hometown when she turns amateur sleuth to a solve a mystery.

Recent high school graduate Doro Banyon looks forward to registering for classes at Michaw College, but a missing final examination ignites her sleuthing interest. When she overhears a professor berating his student assistant for the loss, Doro joins forces with the coed, whose scholarship is in jeopardy unless she can prove she is not at fault. Doro’s father, a professor at the school, pitches in as does another student. Soon, several suspects come arise. As they do, unsettling secrets surface. Can Doro find out what really happened to the lost exam and save her new friend? Or will cheaters prosper?