title: The Empty Envelope (A to Z Mysteries)
author:  Ron Roy 
description: elope...Dink keeps getting envelopes in the mail addressed to "D. Duncan." But the letters inside all start with "Dear Doris" and don't make any sense! Josh and Ruth Rose think someone's playing a trick on Dink. But Dink is sure there's more to it than that, especially after Doris herself shows up and demands her letters!
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  Mystery14 – Mystery of the Strange Messages, The – Blyton, Enid.
  
  
  
  
  
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  _Mr. Goon is Angry._
  
  
  
  
  
  Mr. Goon, the village policeman, was in a very bad temper. He sat
  
  
  at his desk, and stared at three pieces of paper there, spread out before him.
  
  
  Beside them were three cheap envelopes.
  
  
  
  
  
  On each sheet of paper separate words were pasted in uneven lines.
  
  
  "They're all words cut out of some newspaper," said Mr. Goon. "So's
  
  
  the writer's handwriting wouldn't give him away, I suppose! And what nonsense
  
  
  they make—look at this one now—'turn him
  
  
  out of the ivies!' What does _that_ mean, I'd like to know. And
  
  
  this one—'ask. smith what his real name
  
  
  is.' Who's Smith?"
  
  
  
  
  
  He stared at the last piece of paper. "call yourself
  
  
  
  
  
  A POLICEMAN? BETTER GO AND SEE
  
  
  SMITH."
  
  
  
  
  
  "Gah!" said Mr. Goon. "Better put them all into the
  
  
  waste-paper basket!" He took one of the envelopes and looked at it. It was
  
  
  a very cheap one, square in shape, and on each