Mrs. Mays

Mrs. Mays is the school secretary whose orderly records and announcement box become useful in two student mysteries. When Emily and Matthew find a coded packet hidden in an old locker, Mays's preserved files reveal that Dale Jacobs used the locker twenty-five years earlier. That clue helps uncover a long-delayed apology between two writers. Later, Zoe and Jay ask Mays about an embarrassing announcement concerning Olivia's television commercial. She shows them the unsigned note, and its distinctive purple-and-pink stationery points toward Connie's accidental mistake. Mrs. Mays does not solve either case herself, but her careful handling of school information provides the dependable facts young investigators need to move past guesses and discover what really happened.