Book Review 2-17: Newspaper Chase

I read Newspaper Chase. A thief steals a painting from a house. However, he breaks an expensive blue glass vase in the house and trends the pieces of glass when he runs away from there. Can he really make it in stealing the painting perfectly?

The time is in one o'clock in the morning. The place is the Ritesville town art gallery. Harry Black, a thief, comes in a house by opening a window. He finds a painting soon in a room. Then, he takes the painting from its frame. However, on the way to the window, he breaks a beautiful blue glass vase on a table! He runs across the pieces of glass to the window. After that, Harry goes to his room in Mrs. Allen's rooming house and puts the painting in a newspaper. Then, he places the newspaper under his bed. In the morning, a reporter is at the art gallery and he is talking about the painting on the TV. Moreover, he is talking about the blue glass vase. On Friday, Janey, Mrs. Allen's daughter, is looking for old newspapers to throw them away in the house after the newspaper recycling truck arrives. She takes all old newspapers including the newspaper under Harry's bed to the truck. Shortly after she finishes doing it, he chases after the truck to get back the painting. 'What is he doing?' she thinks. When he looks for it, she sees his shoe. Amazingly, there is some blue glass in his shoe! Suddenly, Janey remembers the photo of the blue glass vase on the TV. She goes back to the house and calls the police. Then, some policemen arrive and check Harry's shoe. One of them takes the glass from it and says 'This is an expensive piece of glass.' The piece of glass becomes a conclusive evidence of theft against him, and he is arrested by them in the end.

There was an interesting scene for me in Newpaper Chase. It is that Harry believed he could steal the painting perfectly. Till I finished reading this book, I didn't think the piece of glass became a conclusive evidence of theft against him. However, I could know he was arrested in the end before I finished reading it. Although Janey saw the conclusive evidence at his shoe by accident, she did a great thing. Personally, I thought her good memory led the case to solve. [404 words]