About novel the case of Natty Nat
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Mr. Dillon, co-owner of The Men’s Shop (no joke, that’s the name of the store), claimed Natty Nat robbed his store at gunpoint. Natty Nat was the fake name the newspapers had given to a suspect accused of six armed robberies across the state in one month.
When his father, Idaville’s Chief of Police, told his 10-year-old son every known detail of this story (as detectives normally do, I’m sure), Encyclopedia was able to crack the case in a matter of minutes. No pictures had run of this Natty Nat guy, and Dillon had only seen the suspect from the front. Yet the only way he was able to identify the suspect was by his signature gray coat with the belt in the back.
Encyclopedia saw right through this nonsense. Dillon never saw this guy’s back, so how did he know if the back of the coat had a belt in the back? Encyclopedia speculated that Dillon spent the money, and he didn’t want his business partner, Mr. Jones, to know. I don’t know where this kid gets off making an assumption like that, but I guess that’s not important. What’s important is that this guy filed a fake police report, and he wasn’t robbed.
There was no explanation as to why the newspapers named this guy Natty Nat. What kind of a stupid name is that? Why not call him the Gray-Coated Robber?
What, exactly, am I getting myself into here?