PREMIS SANT JORDI 2020 – LLENGUA ANGLESA – PROSA

Héctor Carmona – The Detective

This story starts in New York in1999 when several thieves robbed a very rich and important bank. The police couldn’t find the thieves so they  took  a detective to find them.

The name of the detective was Mc Find. He was confident and very clever. He had black eyes, short light hair and he was very stocky. He always wore  his favourite brown coat and a black hat.

When he arrived at the police station, they explained what happened and the police gave all the information to Mc Find, for example the clues of the thieves and the place of the robbery but it wasn’t all, the police gave Mc Find a workmate, his name was Brian.

Brian wasn’t very clever or confident, he was shy and weak but he was very nice that’s why Mc Find and Brian got on well. 

When Mc Find and Brian went to  the bank, Mc Find found a very important hint:

The footprint of a boot and Brian took a photograph. The bank was very very big and long and its strongbox was under the ground.

Mc Find asked Brian- “ How can the thieves  rob the bank if the strongbox is under the ground?

Brian said – “I don’t know but there is a hole in one of the walls of the bank”.

Mc Find explained to the manager of the bank that he needed  a blueprint and the manager gave it to Mc Find.

Thanks to the blueprint, Mc Find could  see that the wall with  the hole was on top of the strong box. He immediately went to check the strongbox and saw a hole in the ceiling.

The next day, Mc Find and Brian went  to the bank again and Mc Find  saw that there wasn’t anybody there!!!

Brian was frightened because he heard some steps. He  turned around and saw a man with a mask and a black sweatshirt with big boots.

Brian shouted  -”Help!!! Help!!!!”

But only the man in black heard him. In that moment, Brian saw a knife in the  man’s trousers,  took the knife and tied up the man with a rope.

When he heard a loud noise in another room, he ran towards it, opened the door and  saw  detective Mc Find and more black men.  All the men were wearing a black sweatshirt with boots and  masks. The men went to Brian but he defended himself with the knife and later he tied them  up  with  rope too.

Later, Mc Find explained why the man returned to the bank.

They came back because they didn’t have the money. The money was  in a sports bag in a cupboard. They left the money there because they didn’t know how to escape because their helicopter couldn’t arrive on time.That’s why the men returned and hid the money. 

Brian and Mc Find turn  the men in to the police and the money was returned to the bank.