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O nome do livro é The Double Bass Mystery

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We came out of the airport building. All eighty-five players

from the Barston Symphony Orchestra in England. The sun

was shining. It was hot.

‘Welcome to Barcelona!’ Frank Shepherd said to us all.

‘Come this way. The coaches are waiting.’ We followed him.

Somebody took a photograph.

The coaches left the airport and started on the motorway

into Barcelona. Frank Shepher came and sat next to me. Frank

is the manager of the Barston Symphony Orchestra.

‘Penny,’ he said (that’s my name). ‘We’ve got a bit of a

problem.’

‘What kind of a problem?’ I said.

'Well, it’s your double bass,’ he said.

‘My double bass? What’s wrong with my double bass?’

‘It isn’t here. It isn’t in Barcelona.’

‘What? Where is it?’


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‘I’m afraid that I just don’t know,’ Frank said.

Oh, sorry. I must tell you something about me because,

well, this is my story. Actually that’s not quite true. It’s the

story of a double bass too. People take things and somebody

dies. But that’s for later. Now I’ll start at the beginning.

My name is Penny Wade. I am twenty-six years old. I play

the double bass in the Barston Symphony Orchestra. There are

eight double basses in the BSO. I am number eight. I got the

job six months ago. The other seven players are all older or

better than me. The trip to Spain was my first time with the

orchestra in a foreign country.

'What’s the problem?’ my friend Adriana said from the sear

behind me. Adriana plays the violin in the orchestra.

‘It’s my double bass,’ I said. ‘Frank can’t find it.’

‘I’m sorry,’ Frank said. ‘We put it in the BSO truck in

Barston and it wasn’t in the truck when it arrived in

Barcelona.’

All the big instruments came by road. It was cheaper than

taking them in a plane.

‘He says someone’s taken it,’ I told Adriana.

‘I said perhaps someone’s taken it,’ Frank said.

‘That’s no help at all,’ I said. I was angry. 'Perhaps isn’t any

good. Perhaps it fell off the truck. Perhaps someone wanted

wood for their fire... ’

‘Look,’ Adriana said. ‘This is stupid. Double basses are big.

They don’t just fall off trucks.’

‘This one did,’ I said. I looked out of the window of the

coach. We were arriving in Barcelona. My first foreign trip.

Wonderful, don’t you think? But that’s just the problem. It

wasn’t wonderful at all.


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Chapter 2 A beautiful day

I woke up. I looked around me. Where was I? Then I

remembered. I was in a hotel in Barcelona. With the Barston

Symphony Orchestra. But without my double bass.

I went to the dining room and had coffee. Simon Hunt was

at my table. I was his girlfriend, and he was my boyfriend. I

think.

'Listen,’ he said. ‘You know tonight’s concert.’

‘Yes,’ I said, ‘and I can’t play in it.’

‘Well, you can if you want,’ he smiled. ‘You can play in my

place.’

‘Oh Simon, really?’

‘Yes, I’ve hurt my hand, so ... erm ... I can’t play, you see.

I looked at his hand. I couldn’t see anything wrong.

‘It looks OK,’ I said.

‘Well, it isn’t,’ he answered quickly.

I liked Simon very much. He was tall and handsome. He

had dark hair and blue eyes. He was double bass number two in

our orchestra and ten years older than me.

‘Are you all right?’ I put my hand on his arm.

‘I'll be fine.’ He took my hand away. ‘I’ve talked to Candida

about tonight.’ (Candida was the leader of the double basses.)

‘She says it’s OK.’

‘Thanks, Simon.’

‘Yes, well, it’s nothing. It means that I get a free afternoon.


Quem é Penny Wade?

Quantos anos ela tem?

Para onde a orquestra viajou?

Qual instrumento Adriana toca?

Qual o problema com o contra baixo?

Quem é Frank shepherd?

Quantas vezes Penny wade viajou para um país estrangeiro com

a orquestra?


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