March 12
A mystery has come to light which would befuddle Ellery Queen and Inch High Private Eye - even if they were working together in a detective dream team.
Superkid came home from school with someone else's shoes on (a child's, not an adult's).
The shoes were a different size to his own and had the name Geoffrey Corbishley written in them.
There is nobody of that name in Superkid's class.
Superkid has never been formally introduced to anyone called Geoffrey Corbishley in his life and has never spent any time in the company of anyone from the Corbishley family.
Undercoverdad and Superkid took the offending shoes into class the following morning and presented Teech with the footwear puzzle.
Teech did not know how it could have happened and Teech knows everything. In the entire world.
After she had finished laughing, Teech promised to get to the bottom of this intriguing state of affairs.
Sure enough, by collection time she had solved the matter. Of couse she had, she is Teech.
Anyway, Geoffrey Corbishley does exist. He is a student of some promise in the year above Superkid.
And now he has his own shoes back.
What's more, he had taken Superkid's shoes home and they are also now back in the possession of their original owner.
Teech said she had no idea how the mix-up had happened. There had been no interaction between the two classes and no P.E. lesson or other activity involving the removal of footwear.
It appears Superkid may well be keeping something to himself, which is something his father never did during childhood.
