PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Angleberger, Tom, author. | Chapman, Jared, illustrator.
Title: Didi Dodo, future spy: in recipe for disaster! / by Tom Angleberger; illustrated by
Jared Chapman.
Other titles: Recipe for disaster!
Description: New York: Amulet Books, 2019. | Summary: When Koko Dodo’s secret chocolate sauce is stolen just before an important cooking contest Didi, a dodo bird, devises a daring plan to help—whether he wants her to or not.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018018956 (print) | LCCN 2018024277 (ebook) | ISBN 9781683354758 (All e-books) | ISBN 9781683354758 (hardcover pob)
Subjects: | CYAC: Spies—Fiction. | Stealing—Fiction. | Baking—Fiction. | Contests—Fiction. | Dodo—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.A585 (ebook) | LCC PZ7.A585 Did 2019 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
Text copyright © 2019 Tom Angleberger
Illustrations copyright © 2019 Jared Chapman
Book design by Pamela Notarantonio
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For Erica Finkel
—T. A.
Opening
PART 1
Her Majesty’s Super Secret Fudge Sauce
PART 2
Dodos Don’t Fly
PART 3
Food Court Royale
GRAND FINALE
Where Dodos Dare
Epilogue
Inspector Flytrap’s phone rang.
And rang.
And rang.
And rang.
Finally, a really loud taped voice said: “Hello, you’ve reached the office of Inspector Flytrap and Inspector Nina the Goat. They are not in the office today, because Inspector Flytrap’s grandmother has come to visit. Please leave a message at the sound of the bleat.”
“Bleat,” said a very bored taped voice.
“This is Koko Dodo!” I shouted into the phone. “What are you telling me about a grandmother? I’ve got a BIG DEAL mystery for you to solve! My Super Secret Fudge Sauce has been stolen! Right before the Queen’s Royal Cookie Contest! What am I going to do? Who will help me? Who? WHO?”
Then a taped voice said, “Are you still talking? Don’t bother. Nina the Goat will probably eat this tape before I get a chance to listen to it anyway. Good-bye.”
Click.
I began to sob.
I was still sobbing when someone came into my store, Koko Dodo’s Cookie Shop.
She was wearing roller skates. And she came in really, really, really fast. TOO FAST!