Encyclopedia Brown is sitting at his table at dinner and he is talking about diamonds with his dad witch is a police officer. Chief brown is worried about other police judges coming to Iddavile and he thinks that he will have nothing to entertain them when they are there. So the Browns came up with a lie to entertain the chief police officers that are coming. Chief brown talked to Mr. Van Swiggit and Mr. Van Swiggit work at the diamond factory and he helped chief brown with their plan witch was for Mr Van Swiggit to lie about that a diamond necklace was glass and it was stolen by two masked men that had guns so that is why he was forced to open his save for the two masked men that stole the diamond necklace From Mr. Van Swiggit.