Dear Dad:

To think I almost became friends with a diamond thief!

Everyone at Wickford Castle is resting easier now that Marie Antoinette's journal and her famous diamond are safe and sound. The journal, the diamond, and the medallions are all going to be featured in a new Marie Antoinette museum in Paris, and it looks like everyone is going to be rewarded. (Except for Lisa, of course. She's going to be charged with attempted grand theft.....I guess she missed her plane to Rio.)

Professor Hotchkiss is thrilled because the French government has granted her permission to publish Marie's journal in the US before it gets returned to France. This ought to help prove her theory about Marie's character once and for all.

Thanks to Jacques' and his great grandfather's effort to find the journal, the Brunais name is being celebrated all over France. In the meantime, Jacques and Isabelle have eloped! It's so romantic.

I showed Dexter the poem that Ezra Wickford wrote him and he was relieved to know that his old pop didn't carry any hard feelings to his grave.

All the talk shows want Dexter to tell his story on national television but he keeps turning them down. I guess he doesn’t want to be famous or infamous. But when Christi Lane called and asked Dexter to be her business partner, he accepted! With her business sense and Dexter's knowledge of the castle, I think they'll make a great team!

So, you know what they say, Dad: 'Il n'est jamais trop tard de changer l'histoire.' It's never too late to change history! Me? I'm determined to go out and enjoy this snow before some other case comes up. See you soon!

Love,
Nancy